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Defoliate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To deprive (a plant, tree, or forest) of leaves.

v. To cause the leaves of (a plant, tree, or forest) to fall off, especially by the use of chemicals.

verb-intransitive. To lose foliage.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To remove foliage from (one or more plants), most often with a chemical agent.

adj. Deprived of leaves; defoliated.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.

v. to cause (a plant) to shed its leaves.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To deprive of leaves; cut or pick off the leaves of.

Deprived of leaves; having cast its leaves.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. strip the leaves or branches from

adj. deprived of leaves

Word Usage

"Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office, trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space.""

Equivalent

leafless defoliated

Verb Form

defoliated defoliates defoliating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

denude denudate strip bare

Form

defoliation defoliator