To strip leaves from a plant or tree.
From 'dis-' (prefix meaning to reverse or remove) + 'leaf' (from Old English 'læf', related to Germanic 'laub'). The word directly combines these elements to mean the removal of leaves.
While 'defoliate' is the scientific term we use today, 'disleaf' is the older English way of saying the same thing—showing how English sometimes had its own native words before Latin-based vocabulary took over.
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