depave
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
depave (third-person singular simple present depaves, present participle depaving, simple past and past participle depaved)
- To undo the act of paving; to remove pavement (especially if it is in the form of asphalt, concrete or the like) so as to restore the land to a more natural state.
- 1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, Island Press, page 223:
- Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads...
- 1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, University of California Press, page 356:
- Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.
- 2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, "Depaving Paradise", Audubon Magazine [1]:
- Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars.
- 2002, Jan Lundberg, "Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org [2]:
- They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator
- 2003, Richard Register, "Depaving the World", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org [3]:
- The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden.
- 2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, "Miscellaneous Stuff", Carfree Family, at carfreefamily.blogspot.com [4]:
- This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed.
- 2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 26:
- Rewilding can be as complex as depaving a creek or as simple as planting a few seeds. All you need is a bit of time, curiosity, keen eyes and creativity.
Synonyms edit
- unpave (especially if the paving is in the form of paving stones)
Translations edit
to remove the pavement (asphalt, etc) from (a street, etc) and return to a more natural state — see also unpave