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To deforest a place is to cut down, or burn down, the trees there so it is no longer a forest. People do this to make , roads, mines, or towns. The tidy dictionary picture is “all the trees,” though actually a few may be left standing; what is gone is the forest as a living place. This is a verb: they deforested the valley. News and science like it; in everyday talk people often say cut down the forest, or jump to the noun deforestation. It is not a gentle word — it names a large, often ugly change to the land. You will meet it a lot in climate and wildlife writing. It is not the same as logging one patch and letting the woods grow back: that may still be cutting trees, but deforest is the stronger claim that the forest itself is being removed.
砍伐（整片）森林；伐林；毀林
組成de- (off, away, undo) + forest. So: to take the forest away.
同家族的字
- forestthe woods themselves; this verb is built on that noun
- deforestationthe noun for the same action or result
- reforestto plant trees again on land that was cleared
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
DeForestname
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A surname from French, equivalent to English Forest or Woods, equivalent to the modern French surname Deforet.
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A male given name transferred from the surname, equivalent to English Forest.
deforestverb/dɪˈfɒɹɪst/
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To clear (an area) of forest.
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archaiclawTo disafforest (remove legal status as forest).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。