deflating

Example Sentences

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Agent Orange is a synthetic defoliating herbicide that was widely used between 1965 and 1970 during the Vietnam War.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

If your baldness insists on defoliating your cranium even further, the peninsula will start to shrink the direction of the bald patch on your crown.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2021

In the meantime, if you see a hairy, defoliating caterpillar in New Hampshire, you can call it by its scientific name.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021

Step by step she regresses into a private wilderness, beyond the last camper's garbage, the last hunter's slaughtered bird, the last echo of the defoliating chain saw.

From Time Magazine Archive

It feeds upon the leaves, devouring all but the petiole, and often entirely defoliating both gooseberry and currant bushes.

From Success with Small Fruits by Roe, Edward Payson