disforest

verb

Etymology

From dis- + forest.

  1. derived from *furhisti — “forest, fir-grove, wooded land
  2. derived from forestis
  3. derived from forest
  4. inherited from forest
  5. prefixed as disforest — “dis + forest

Definitions

  1. To disafforest

    • “And so they’re going to cut down Chaldicotes forest, are they, Mr. Sowerby?” “Well, I can’t tell you that. They are going to disforest it. I have been ranger since I was twenty-two, and I don’t yet know whether that means cutting down.”

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA