Thesaurus results for DEFOREST

deforest

verb

Definition of deforest

as in to skin

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Recent Examples of deforest Bolivia has become one of the fastest deforesting countries on earth. — Jhanisse Vaca Daza, Time, 6 June 2026 Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested. — Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025 This includes changing the designation of some land in the Amazon to savanna, significantly increasing the amount that can be legally deforested. — 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

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Verb

Thanks to camelia, olive, rosehip, and turmeric, this formula improves collagen production, smooths wrinkles, reduces inflammation, speeds up healing, and firms skin.

— Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 19 Aug. 2026
If hunting or skinning animals, use gloves, and cook game meat thoroughly before eating.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of skin

Verb

Freedom stood up, spread his arms, barked back and took a step toward her.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
During the third quarter of the Indiana Fever's 113-90 win over the Sky at Wintrust Arena, Cloud began barking at Freedom, who was sitting courtside.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of bark

Verb

Trans comedian Jordan Gray is extremely unafraid to bare it all, including her soul, when behind the piano.

— Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
In a selfie posted to her Instagram account, the Rhode founder bared her abs while rocking a plunging sports bra by Form.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of bare

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The tribe led efforts to restore Prairie Creek, which had been largely denuded and buried by the timber operation.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
Against this show, college dorm room posters of melting clocks feel utterly denuded, with regrets to the angsty teens pinning them up.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of denude

Verb

After the 2017 crackdown, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims crossed from Rakhine into neighboring Bangladesh on foot and by boat during shelling, indiscriminate killings and other violence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
Thin-shelled yet not overly delicate, stuffed with amarena cherry-scented light ricotta bookended by bitter dark chocolate chips.

— The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of shell

Verb

But before the developers can build the swank tower, part of the site needed to be stripped of its historic landmark status.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026
That combination, just like QIH, suppressed neuronal firing and stripped out a comparable share of synapses, but the mice came out of it with impaired fear memory.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of strip

Verb

The scientists now plan to collaborate with cement industry stakeholders to determine if the technology can be scaled for mass production.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
As set out in a recent regulatory filing, DraftKings has agreed to pay up to $30 million in a marketing agreement with media platform HardScope, Kalish’s newest endeavor to help scale creator brands.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

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