RE-AFFOREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does re-afforest mean? 

• RE-AFFOREST (verb)
  The verb RE-AFFOREST has 1 sense:

1. reestablish a forest after clear-cutting or fire, etc.

  Familiarity information: RE-AFFOREST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RE-AFFOREST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they re-afforest    ... he / she / it re-afforests   
Past simple: re-afforested   
Past participle: re-afforested   
-ing form: re-afforesting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reestablish a forest after clear-cutting or fire, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

re-afforest the area that was burned during the fighting

Hypernyms (to "re-afforest" is one way to...):

afforest; forest (establish a forest on previously unforested land)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

re-afforestation (the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting)