"disafforest" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English disafforeten, from Anglo-Norman disaforester and its probable etymon Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, dis- + afforest.",
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      "form": "disafforests",
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      "form": "disafforesting",
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      "form": "disafforested",
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        "To deforest."
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          "text": "The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.",
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        "To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, law) To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land."
      ],
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  "word": "disafforest"
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        "To deforest."
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          "text": "The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.",
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        "To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land."
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        "(UK, law) To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land."
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