Found 2 items, similar to Disafforest.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: disafforest
disafforest
v : remove the trees from;
“The landscape was deforested by the
enemy attacks” [syn:
deforest,
disforest]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Disafforest
Disafforest
\Dis`af*for"est\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Disafforested; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disafforesting.] [Pref.
dis- + afforest: cf. OF. desaforester.] (Eng. Law)
To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of
common ground; to exempt from forest laws.
[1913 Webster]
By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were
disafforested. --Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]