deforest

verb

Definition of deforestnext
as in to skin

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Recent Examples of deforest Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested. — Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025 This includes changing the designation of some land in the Amazon to savanna, significantly increasing the amount that can be legally deforested. — Sarah Sax, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025 About that time, Dorrell was biking up Mont Ventoux in the French Alps, where the top of the mountain has been deforested and looks like a moonscape. — Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 The company has committed to having 100 percent of its leather sourced from land not converted from a natural ecosystem or deforested for the grazing of cows, which will apply to European leather by 2025 and global sourcing by 2030. — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for deforest
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deforest
  1. skin
  2. hull
  3. bark
  4. bare
  5. denude
  6. shell
  7. strip
  8. scale
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  • Yamaguchi prepared each course live, skinning a pike conger or breaking down live lobsters from his perch behind the grill.
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Formulated with retinol, collagen, and hyaluronic acid, the anti-aging cream smooths and firms skin.
    — Isabel Bekele, InStyle, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of skin
Verb
  • Pumpkin seeds can be consumed hulled or unhulled, but sunflower seeds should only be consumed when hulled.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 10 July 2026
  • Recipe information If using ¾ cup hulled barley, rinse in a mesh sieve under running water.
    — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of hull
Verb
  • Mainly looking to drown out a snoring partner, a barking dog or an overactive brain?
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Even Barnum understood that the public can balance a three ring circus and not follow the carnival barking of the ringmaster.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of bark
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  • That act of baring himself is worthy of being preserved for posterity.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
  • With his head shaved and his chest usually bared, Yousuke Yukimatsu melds body and machine to choreograph intensely physical sonic marathons.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of bare
Verb
  • The tribe led efforts to restore Prairie Creek, which had been largely denuded and buried by the timber operation.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
  • Against this show, college dorm room posters of melting clocks feel utterly denuded, with regrets to the angsty teens pinning them up.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of denude
Verb
  • Additionally, six facilities were cited for health food violations including old rodent droppings on the floor near chicken packaging and shelled eggs stored improperly.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said in a statement Thursday that the strikes were carried out after eight drones were launched from Afghanistan and Afghan forces shelled Pakistani border posts.
    — MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of shell
Verb
  • Though the star is stripping and accreting matter like black holes sometimes do with stars, the huge difference in size between the star in ZTF J0440+2325 and a typical black hole means this proceeds differently.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Pad Thai – less the salt and sugar – tastes very different when all the bad stuff is stripped out.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of strip
Verb
  • Pay TV operator Movistar Plus is scaling up in Spanish originals.
    — Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Even some of Google’s own apps do this, while others, like YouTube and Messages, scale more naturally.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of scale

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“Deforest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforest. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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