transcription, транскрипция: [ di:fɒrɪst, AM -fɔ:r- ]
( deforests, deforesting, deforested)
If an area is deforested , all the trees there are cut down or destroyed.
400,000 square kilometres of the Amazon basin have already been deforested.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
• de‧for‧esta‧tion
...the ecological crisis of deforestation.
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