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Noun

deforestation ‎(plural deforestations)

1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

     Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

Antonyms

• afforestation
• reforestation

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