disforest

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ forest.

Verb

disforest (third-person singular simple present disforests, present participle disforesting, simple past and past participle disforested)

1. To disafforest
   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 8, in Framley Parsonage, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:

     “And so they’re going to cut down Chaldicotes forest, are they, Mr. Sowerby?”
     “Well, I can’t tell you that. They are going to disforest it. I have been ranger since I was twenty-two, and I don’t yet know whether that means cutting down.”