Definition of "disafforesting" []

• Present participle of disafforest. (verb)

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• "Still, for the nine years that the work of 'disafforesting' lasted, the two little girls got a great deal of enjoyment out of the ruined Chase, spending long summer days in its grassy glades, while their father parcelled out the land and marked trees for the axe."
• "The first charter affecting the state of the moor was bestowed in 1204, when King John was compelled reluctantly to grant a Charter of Forests, disafforesting the lands that had been gradually appropriated by the Kings since Henry I."
• "Hitherto in young colonies the disafforesting of districts has been for agricultural and other purposes recklessly proceeded with."