Third-person singular present tense of deforest; clears or removes forests.
From de- + forest, conjugated to third-person singular. This is a modern verb form created from the combining form de- with forest.
The conjugation of deforest shows how English adapts to name new human activities—as deforestation became a practice, deforest became a verb we needed.
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