Synonyms for afforestation
af·foresta·tion

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1. afforestationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deforestation

2. afforestationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deforestation

Princeton's WordNet

1. afforestationnoun

   the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)

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1. • Conversion

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1. List of paraphrases for "afforestation":

   forestation, reforestation, greening, reafforestation, tree-planting, green, forestry

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How to use afforestation in a sentence?

1. Marty Odlin:

   We can do large-scale afforestation efforts, but they're not going to get us to where we need to go, they're not removing carbon from the carbon cycle.