desertify
verbEtymology From desert + -ify.
1
Of a geographical region To become desert.
2
To cause (a geographical region) to become desert.
- Part of the genius of Andalusi filahah was its water management, still light years ahead of industrialised modern agriculture, which decimates forests for high-output farms that dry up streams and springs and desertifies fertile terrain.2020, Medina Tenour Whiteman, The Invisible Muslim: Journeys Through Whiteness and Islam:
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