déboiser
French, verb/de.bwa.ze/
déboiser is spelled D-É-B-O-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déboiser is a French verb meaning “to deforest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir un terrain des bois qui le couvraient”.
What does déboiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deforest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir un terrain des bois qui le couvraient.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of déboiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déboisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déboisé participle past
- déboise first-person indicative present
- déboises indicative present second-person
- déboisons first-person indicative plural
- déboisez indicative plural present
- déboisent indicative plural present
- déboisais first-person imperfect indicative
- déboisait imperfect indicative singular
- déboisions first-person imperfect indicative
- déboisiez imperfect indicative plural
- déboisaient imperfect indicative plural
- déboisai first-person historic indicative
- déboisas historic indicative past
- déboisa historic indicative past
- déboisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déboiser?
- /de.bwa.ze/
- \de.bwa.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déboiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déboiser in French?
déboiser appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).