Usually means: Planting trees in barren land.
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  1. afforest: Merriam-Webster
  2. afforest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afforest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. afforest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. afforest: Vocabulary.com
  6. afforest: Wordnik
  7. afforest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. afforest: Wiktionary
  9. afforest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. afforest: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Afforest, afforest: Dictionary.com
  12. Afforest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Afforest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. afforest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. afforest: Rhymezone
  16. Afforest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. afforest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. afforest: FreeDictionary.org
  19. afforest: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. afforest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. afforest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. afforest: Encyclopedia

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make into forest

Similar:
forest, reforestize, reafforest, wood, rewood, treeify, arborise, fruiten, grove, floralize, more...

Opposite:
deforest, clearcut, denude

Phrases:
re afforest, more...

Colors:
    green,     forest green,     olive,     moss green,     fern green, more...

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Similar:
forest, reforestize, reafforest, wood, rewood, treeify, arborise, fruiten, grove, floralize, more...

Opposite:
deforest, clearcut, denude

Phrases:
re afforest, more...

Colors:
    green,     forest green,     olive,     moss green,     fern green, more...



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