Thesaurus results for DEFOREST

deforest

verb

Definition of deforest

as in to skin

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Recent Examples of deforest Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested. — Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025 This includes changing the designation of some land in the Amazon to savanna, significantly increasing the amount that can be legally deforested. — Sarah Sax, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025 About that time, Dorrell was biking up Mont Ventoux in the French Alps, where the top of the mountain has been deforested and looks like a moonscape. — Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 The company has committed to having 100 percent of its leather sourced from land not converted from a natural ecosystem or deforested for the grazing of cows, which will apply to European leather by 2025 and global sourcing by 2030. — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for deforest

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Yamaguchi prepared each course live, skinning a pike conger or breaking down live lobsters from his perch behind the grill.

— Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026
Formulated with retinol, collagen, and hyaluronic acid, the anti-aging cream smooths and firms skin.

— Isabel Bekele, InStyle, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of skin

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Under a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services program, participating healthcare organizations can offer eligible beneficiaries certain federally legal hemp products, such as hemp seed oil, hemp protein powder and hulled hemp seeds.

— Karon Warren, AJC.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Pumpkin seeds can be consumed hulled or unhulled, but sunflower seeds should only be consumed when hulled.

— Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 10 July 2026

Definition of hull

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Both adult residents of the home were alerted to the fire when their dog began barking, helping wake them up, the fire department said.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Mainly looking to drown out a snoring partner, a barking dog or an overactive brain?

— Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of bark

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While the imagery around the show was overtly erotic, from the footage of mating snails and kissing bodies to the music and the projections, the clothes themselves were less about baring skin than creating a sense of sensuality.

— Amy Francombe, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026
That act of baring himself is worthy of being preserved for posterity.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of bare

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This year's phenomenon coincided with a string of hurricanes in the eastern Pacific, fueling sea level rise and large waves that have destroyed homes and denuded some Southern California beaches of sand.

— Daniel Trotta, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2026
The tribe led efforts to restore Prairie Creek, which had been largely denuded and buried by the timber operation.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026

Definition of denude

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State regulatory paperwork describes a $25 million core and shell for an office building with groundfloor retail measuring 88,000 square feet.

— Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
Additionally, six facilities were cited for health food violations including old rodent droppings on the floor near chicken packaging and shelled eggs stored improperly.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of shell

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Despite Ukraine's pause, officials in Kyiv said the country has been stripped of advance warnings of incoming ballistic missiles, as Starlink connectivity services had been restricted across the country, disrupting military operations.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Many of those stripped from the electoral rolls are appealing their removal—an often laborious process—but the possibility of mass disenfranchisement is real.

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of strip

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DannijoPro has tapped Pat Geraghty, former president and chief executive officer of GuideWell and its subsidiary Florida Blue, as CEO as the company looks to scale its business.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
How Creator Relationships With Viewers Are Changing As creator content has become more professionally produced and even scaled via generative AI tools, the audience’s emotional relationship to creators has changed, as well.

— William Daddi, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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