8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
verb remove the trees from
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English forest English deforest From de- + forest.
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