defoliate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
strip the leaves or branches from
defoliate the trees with pesticides
Types & categories
- denude hypernym
Related & opposite
- defoliation derivation
- defoliator derivation
- defoliation derivation
- defoliant derivation
Sense 2 adjective
deprived of leaves
Related & opposite
- leafless similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defoliation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defoliator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defoliation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | defoliant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | denude |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | leafless |