Usually means: Remove trees from a forest.
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  1. deforest: Merriam-Webster
  2. deforest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deforest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deforest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deforest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deforest, deforest: Wordnik
  7. deforest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deforest: Wiktionary
  9. deforest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deforest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. DeForest: Dictionary.com
  12. DeForest (disambiguation), DeForest (name), DeForest, Deforest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Deforest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. deforest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. deforest: FreeDictionary.org
  16. deforest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. deforest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. deforest: Rhymezone
  19. Deforest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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  1. deforest: Encyclopedia

(Note: See deforested as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deForest)

verb:  (transitive) To clear (an area) of forest.
verb:  (transitive, law, archaic) To disafforest (remove legal status as forest).
noun:  A surname from French, equivalent to English Forest or Woods, equivalent to the modern French surname Deforet.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname, equivalent to English Forest.
noun:  Alternative form of DeForest [A surname from French, equivalent to English Forest or Woods, equivalent to the modern French surname Deforet.]
noun:  Alternative form of DeForest [A surname from French, equivalent to English Forest or Woods, equivalent to the modern French surname Deforet.]

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