Noun

(en noun)

The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.

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, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:

Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.

* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:

Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.