deforest
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- v remove the trees from
The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks
- Brazil has remarkably strict environmental laws--in the Amazon, landholders are permitted to deforest only 20% of their property--but there's not much law enforcement.
- When we pollute and deforest and make a mess of the ecological web, we're taking out mortgages on the Earth that we can't pay back and those loans will come due.