Word Meanings - AFFOREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFOREST)

• Enclose
• Shut
• encircle
• environ
• include
• circumscribe
• envelop
• wrap
• afforest

Related words: (words related to AFFOREST)

• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
• CIRCUMSCRIBE
  To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is
• ENVIRONS
  The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
• ENVELOPMENT
  1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• ENVIRON
  To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
• ENCIRCLE
  To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell. Syn. -- To encompass; surround; environ; inclose.
• ENVELOPE; ENVELOP
  The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma. (more info) 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
• ENVELOP
  To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips. (more info)
• AFFORESTATION
  The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.
• ENCIRCLET
  A small circle; a ring. Sir P. Sidney.
• CIRCUMSCRIBER
  One who, or that which, circumscribes.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• ENVIRONMENT
  1. Act of environing; state of being environed. 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment,
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
• REAFFORESTATION
  The act or process of converting again into a forest.
• REAFFOREST
  To convert again into the forest, as a region of country.
• DISAFFOREST
  To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.
• DISENCLOSE
  See DISINCLOSE