Home › Words › D › disafforestdisafforestdisafforest means to deforest.EtymologyFrom Middle English disafforeten, from Anglo-Norman disaforester and its probable etymon Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, dis- + afforest.verbTo deforest.To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.disforest 90% match — To disafforest vs disafforest →disafforestment 83% match — disafforestation vs disafforest →deafforest 80% match — To change the status of (a forest) so that it is no longer legally regarded as forest land. vs disafforest →deafforestation 76% match — The act of deafforesting; the withdrawal of forest status from a piece of land. vs disafforest →disafforestation 75% match — The change in the legal status of an area from forest to that of normal land, entailing the loss of forest laws. vs disafforest →deforest 72% match — To clear (an area) of forest. vs disafforest →reafforest 70% match — To reforest. vs disafforest →deforested 70% match — Of or pertaining to deforestation. vs disafforest →