re-afforest

1. 1.

   reestablish a forest after clear-cutting or fire, etc.

   “re-afforest the area that was burned during the fighting”

   Broaderafforest

Questions about re-afforest

What does re-afforest mean?

re-afforest means "reestablish a forest after clear-cutting or fire, etc.".

How many syllables are in re-afforest?

re-afforest has 4 syllables and divides as re--af-fo-rest under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is re-afforest a common word?

re-afforest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.