Deforestation

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Origin

From Latin de + forresta, forestis

Full definition of deforestation

Noun

1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.
• 2006, w, Internal Combustion Chapter 2, 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.

Antonyms

• afforestation
• reforestation