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afforesting (countable and uncountable, plural afforestings)

  1. Synonym of afforestation
    • 1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. []”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: [] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, [], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 534:
      The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.

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afforesting

  1. present participle and gerund of afforest