deforestation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English forest English deforest Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English deforestation From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:The world leaders gathered at a crucial climate summit secured new agreements on Tuesday to end deforestation and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, building momentum as the conference prepared to shift to a more grueling two weeks of negotiations on how to avert the planet’s catastrophic warming.
2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers, Lisa Friedman, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- (countable, uncountable) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| deforestations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
nondeforestation · antideforestation
Translations (46)
mi whakarakenga (process of destroying a forest) · ro despădurire (process of destroying a forest) · hu erdőirtás (process of destroying a forest) · es desmontadura (process of destroying a forest) · nn avskoging (process of destroying a forest) · mk обесшумување (process of destroying a forest) · oc desforestacion (process of destroying a forest) · sv skogsskövling (process of destroying a forest) · sv avskogning (process of destroying a forest) · pt desmatamento (process of destroying a forest) · sh rašumljavanje (process of destroying a forest) · nb avskoging (process of destroying a forest) · gl deforestación (process of destroying a forest) · ca desboscament (process of destroying a forest) · es desmonte (process of destroying a forest) · tl higubat (process of destroying a forest) · id deforestasi (process of destroying a forest) · de Abholzung (process of destroying a forest) · da afskovning (process of destroying a forest) · de Kahlschlag (process of destroying a forest) · ru вы́рубка ле́са (process of destroying a forest) · ka გაუტყევება (process of destroying a forest) · be абязле́сенне (process of destroying a forest) · it deforestazione (process of destroying a forest) · km ការកាប់បំផ្លាញព្រៃឈើ (process of destroying a forest) · id pengawahutanan (process of destroying a forest) · pt desflorestamento (process of destroying a forest) · ko 산림 파괴 (process of destroying a forest) · mk голосек (process of destroying a forest) · pl wylesianie (process of destroying a forest) · ca desforestació (process of destroying a forest) · el αποψίλωση (process of destroying a forest) · fr déboisement (process of destroying a forest) · yo ìpagbórun (process of destroying a forest) · nl ontbossing (process of destroying a forest) · sh deforestacija (process of destroying a forest) · fr déforestation (process of destroying a forest) · jv déforestasi (process of destroying a forest) · vi phá rừng (process of destroying a forest) · ru обезле́сение (process of destroying a forest) · es deforestación (process of destroying a forest) · de Entwaldung (process of destroying a forest) · ms penyahhutanan (process of destroying a forest) · fi metsän hävittäminen (process of destroying a forest) · tr ormansızlaştırma (process of destroying a forest) · eo senarbarigo (process of destroying a forest)