defoliated

IPA: dɪfˈoʊɫieɪtɪd

Examples of "defoliated" in Sentences

Lam said that after the battle, the area was heavily bombed and then defoliated until there were no trees left.
Tulip poplars simply defoliated in September and early October, when their foliage turned a drought-related yellow.
Agent Orange defoliated the forests, Agent Blue killed crops, and a lot of both chemicals landed on people, including American troops.
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.
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.
Somewhere out there beyond the elephant grass and the rice paddies and the hills that had been chemically defoliated or burned by napalm, Bedcheck Charlie was prowling through the darkness in black pajamas and a conical straw hat and sandals fashioned from the rubber strips he had sawed out of a truck tire.