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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
defoliate .
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Examples
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The water to be collected in the reservoir is contaminated with defoliates, fertilizers, pesticides, detergents and E. coli bacteria.
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The mules were tethered in small defoliates here and there.
Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002
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But in men who carry a certain common gene, the same hormone gradually defoliates the scalp, causing their aging heads to grow shiny even as their ears, noses and shoulders sprout more hair.
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Rather than retracting when the crowd multiplies exponentially, it sprouts additional beach territory out into the ocean and defoliates when the crowd departs.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Rather than retracting when the crowd multiplies exponentially, it sprouts additional beach territory out into the ocean and defoliates when the crowd departs.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Rather than retracting when the crowd multiplies exponentially, it sprouts additional beach territory out into the ocean and defoliates when the crowd departs.
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In these epics of testosterone-poisoned kitsch, Norris and Stallone, freed of government restraint and hippie bad mojo, reaped revenge on the godless, yellow hordes, by deploying the terrible weaponry of their male pheromonal musk defoliates and hairstyling jell napalm.
A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance: The American Normalization of Mass Murder. 2007
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Rather than retracting when the crowd multiplies exponentially, it sprouts additional beach territory out into the ocean and defoliates when the crowd departs.
Counting Crowds 2005
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This insect, a native of India and the Far East, defoliates and sometimes kills the tree.
2 The Reality 1992
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The walnut caterpillar defoliates the trees but seldom kills them, although it does lower their value as shade trees.
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