"depave" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "de-",
        "3": "pave"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + pave",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + pave",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "depaves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "depaving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "depaved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "depaved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "depave (third-person singular simple present depaves, present participle depaving, simple past and past participle depaved)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "kind": "other",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, Island Press, page 223",
          "text": "Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, \"Depaving Paradise\", Audubon Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20060815221845/http://magazine.audubon.org/profile/profile0003.html",
          "text": "Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jan Lundberg, \"Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context\", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/press_release3.html",
          "text": "They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Register, \"Depaving the World\", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/rregister.html",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, \"Miscellaneous Stuff\", Carfree Family, at carfreefamily.blogspot.com https://archive.is/20121203103059/carfreefamily.blogspot.com/2006/05/miscellaneous-stuff.html",
          "text": "This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities, Orca Book Publishers, page 26",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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        [
          "paving",
          "pave"
        ],
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          "pavement",
          "pavement"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "especially if the paving is in the form of paving stones",
          "word": "unpave"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "depave"
}

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + pave",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "depaves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "depaving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "depaved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "depaved",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, Island Press, page 223",
          "text": "Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, \"Depaving Paradise\", Audubon Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20060815221845/http://magazine.audubon.org/profile/profile0003.html",
          "text": "Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jan Lundberg, \"Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context\", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/press_release3.html",
          "text": "They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Register, \"Depaving the World\", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/rregister.html",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, \"Miscellaneous Stuff\", Carfree Family, at carfreefamily.blogspot.com https://archive.is/20121203103059/carfreefamily.blogspot.com/2006/05/miscellaneous-stuff.html",
          "text": "This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities, Orca Book Publishers, page 26",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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          "pave"
        ],
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          "pavement"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "especially if the paving is in the form of paving stones",
      "word": "unpave"
    }
  ],
  "word": "depave"
}