Synonyms of deforest

deforest

verb

as in to skin

Related Words

• skin
• hull
• bark
• bare
• denude
• shell
• strip
• scale
• expose
• flay
• husk
• shuck
• defoliate
• pare
• clear

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of deforest

These same governors have passed laws that effectively void the Soy Moratorium, a voluntary agreement that has contributed to a historically steep decline in deforestation by barring signatory companies from purchasing soy grown on land in the Amazon that was deforested after 2008. — 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

Based on a study published in Nature Sustainability a few months ago, 1.4 million hectares (the equivalent of nine cities the size of Greater London) were deforested in 2015 to open space for pasture for cows to graze. — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

That’s the lesson behind a study out this week in the Journal of Applied Ecology in which researchers assessed which worms, ants, and other invertebrates were wiggling their way through plots of soil that had been deforested, revegetated, or left natural. — Hannah Richter, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024

Reuters visited two orchards in July that an analysis of satellite images by U.S. nonprofit Climate Rights International showed were illegally deforested in Madero after 2015. — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024