verb
- to turn land into desert, especially through drought, overgrazing, or poor farming practices
Usage: transitive verb; often used in environmental and agricultural contexts
Examples
- Overgrazing by livestock has desertified large areas of the Sahel region.
- Climate change and poor water management are desertifying farmland across the Middle East.
- Without intervention, the drought will continue to desertify the region.
- Deforestation desertifies the landscape by removing vegetation that holds soil in place.
- The government launched a project to prevent further desertification of the grasslands.