disafforest Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb remove the trees from
    deforest; disforest.
    • The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks

WordNet

Dis`af*for"est transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. dis- + afforest: cf. OF. desaforester.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Disafforested; present participle & verbal noun Disafforesting
Definitions
  1. (Eng. Law) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.
    By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.

Webster 1913