deforestar
Spanish, verb/defoɾesˈtaɾ/
deforestar is spelled D-E-F-O-R-E-S-T-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish, the 148,939th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deforestar is a Spanish verb meaning “to deforest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Despojar un terreno de su vegetación, sobre todo cuando se hace de forma sistemática y a gran escala”.
What does deforestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deforest
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Despojar un terreno de su vegetación, sobre todo cuando se hace de forma sistemática y a gran escala.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of deforestar
- deforesto first-person present singular
- deforesté first-person preterite singular
- deforestado participle past
- deforestando gerund
- deforestada feminine participle past
- deforestados masculine participle past
- deforestadas feminine participle past
- deforestas indicative informal present
- deforestás indicative informal present
- deforesta indicative present singular
- deforestamos first-person indicative plural
- deforestáis indicative plural present
- deforestan indicative plural present
- deforestaba first-person imperfect indicative
- deforestabas imperfect indicative second-person
- deforestábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- deforestabais imperfect indicative plural
- deforestaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce deforestar?
- /defoɾesˈtaɾ/
- [d̪e.fo.ɾesˈt̪aɾ]
- [d̪efoɾesˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to deforestar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is deforestar in Spanish?
deforestar appears about once in every 16 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).