deforested

past tense of deforest

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for deforested
Verb
  • The school itself is one story and sprawling, the campus denuded of pine trees.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But, in market, each one is skinned differently and matched with unique-to-OEM services.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Birds of paradise from islands such as New Guinea were hunted and skinned, then exported to Europe and the US, where they were sold to milliners at auctions in London, Paris and Amsterdam.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another nearby dog has barked since Mancl and his wife moved in four years ago.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Toward the end of his game-winning drive Sunday, Mac Jones received the play from the sideline, barked it to teammates, then turned to one of his two favorite targets on the day, Christian McCaffrey.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Key Takeaways Pumpkin seeds with their shells on contain more fiber than almonds, but almonds have more fiber than shelled pumpkin seeds.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Rajab and her family had been fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled, killing her uncle, aunt, and three cousins.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The video, filmed by someone who must have scaled one of the bridge’s three-hundred-and-ten-foot towers, is basically a eulogy created in the grip of the mind-set that caused the young girls’ deaths.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The royal couple scaled down their engagements to spend time with their three children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — during their school's half-term break, and the family moved into their new home, Forest Lodge in Windsor.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Sources say that the Princesses are furious at Prince William for allegedly threatening to revoke their titles as Princesses after their father ex-Prince Andrew, got his titles stripped.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The self-laceration is done on Damon Albarn Time, though, as Idles’ usual anxious guitar rave-ups are slowed and stripped here to a skipping, reggae-ish crawl, as synths squeak in the background and Albarn offers support via his forever-distant, disembodied backing vocals.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Kennedy had argued the animals exposed to flu may hold potential for disease research, but the agency said there was no evidence for this and yesterday the Canadian Supreme Court declined to weigh in on the case, removing the last legal roadblock to prevent their culling.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Then later, a week after the testing was done, state inspectors discovered that about a dozen residents who had been exposed to COVID-19 were being housed in the same rooms as a slew of residents who hadn’t.
    Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Deforested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforested. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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