deforests

verb

present tense third-person singular of deforest
as in shells

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  1. shells
  2. barks
  3. strips
  4. skins
  5. scales
Verb
  • During the drive, a tank shells the car, killing most of the occupants.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Definition of shells
Verb
  • Despite his breed, Genji has yet to discover the famous Shiba scream and, in fact, barely barks.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Cumming barks in a jump-scare moment that takes the group by surprise.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of barks
Verb
  • Texting also strips out tone of voice and facial expression, the signals that make intent easier to interpret.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Most tap water in the UAE comes from desalination, which strips out salt but leaves minerals behind, producing a mineral load that builds up on hair, skin and surfaces.
    — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of strips
Verb
  • Onion skins to add nutrients to soil, either through compost heap or by placing scraps directly in the dirt.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 7 July 2026
  • Sanders, along with two of his daughters, skins the fish straightaway.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026
Definition of skins
Verb
  • As adoption scales from a pilot of a few hundred employees to thousands of AI agents running continuously across customer service, product data and supply chain workflows, token costs become a bigger deal.
    — Adrian Carr, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • To quantify this effect, the team modeled the drop as a conducting sphere hovering over a conducting wall, then calculated how the field strength scales with distance.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of scales
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