Usually means: Remove legal forest status from land.
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  1. disafforest: Merriam-Webster
  2. disafforest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disafforest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. disafforest: Vocabulary.com
  5. disafforest: Wordnik
  6. disafforest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. disafforest: Wiktionary
  8. disafforest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Disafforest, disafforest: Dictionary.com
  10. Disafforest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. disafforest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. disafforest: Rhymezone
  13. Disafforest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. disafforest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. disafforest: FreeDictionary.org
  16. disafforest: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. disafforest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. disafforest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disafforest)

▸ verb:  To deforest.
▸ verb:  (UK, law) To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land.

Similar:
disforest, deforest, defoliate, reforest, unforest, deafforest, enforest, disfurnish, devegetate, defoil, more...

Opposite:
afforest, reforest, forest

Types:
clear-cut, selective logging, thinning, reforestation, more...

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Similar:
disforest, deforest, defoliate, reforest, unforest, deafforest, enforest, disfurnish, devegetate, defoil, more...

Opposite:
afforest, reforest, forest

Types:
clear-cut, selective logging, thinning, reforestation, more...



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