Definition of "defoliating" []

• Present participle of defoliate. (verb)

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• "U.S. advisors in Tay Ninh Province first broached the idea of defoliating the Boi Loi Woods in early October 1964, and a formal request from Vietnamese officials reached Saigon on December 3, 1964."
• "Agent Orange was the code name of a herbicide developed for the military to prohibit enemy concealment in dense terrain by defoliating trees and shrubbery where the enemy could hide."
• "Over the years, he refined his ideas to include defoliating the forests of Vietnam and Laos with "low-yield atomic weapons.""