defoliate

VERB
  1. strip the leaves or branches from
    defoliate the trees with pesticides
ADJECTIVE
  1. deprived of leaves
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How To Use defoliate In A Sentence

  • Another guy said it was too bad we weren't Americans'cause if we were, we could call in the B52s and defoliate it. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
  • Much of the Vietnamese countryside was defoliated using poisons like Agent Orange, so toxic that even the soldiers who did the spraying suffered long-term damage to their health.
  • Another guy said it was too bad we weren't Americans'cause if we were, we could call in the B52s and defoliate it. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
  • The crop was a mutant but bountiful one, and it was believed that Garuda provided largely defoliated Optera with much of its needed supply of nutrient.
  • Frosts at any time in the growing season can partially or totally defoliate vines, but they typically remove the outermost leaf layers of a thick canopy.
  • In the world that has "developed" since 1971, it has been fought in the barrios; it has defoliated land and driven peasants into even worse poverty. Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging
  • Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office,  trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space. Overboard
  • Metrics such as use of "body counts" and scientific solutions such as using the herbicide Agent Orange to defoliate jungles in which communist guerrillas hid became trademarks of the conflict. Vietnam-era Pentagon chief McNamara dead at 93
  • Little leaf lindens will certainly be defoliated if Japanese beetles are in the area.
  • The three seemingly never-ending, dark days that we had spent sinking in black puddles and slipping on fallen leaves in a courtyard of faded, gray concrete apartment blocks, where we had waited with dozens of other reporters behind a small grove of defoliated trees and a police cordon. Peace Meals
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