swidden
caingin
kaingin
swiddener
burn off
burnoff
jhumming
scorch
unbank
fireland
scour
assart
top-drain
grounds
deforest
slash
mop up
mud out
burn-beat
police
firebreak
strip
peat bog
bog
monocropped
irrigation
fallow
smother
fire
cutover
sartage
clearage
vell
burn-baited
ablate
waterbomb
till
slash and burn
dyke
pyrophilous
sweep
burn-clearing
dump and burn
shovel out
destruction fire
stank
land clearer
flog
unrake
dry
rake out
self-extinguishing
multialarm
burn out
tiller
incineration
cultivator
rakehoe
degrade
beat out
hush
burninate
trench
immolate
rehabilitation
poke
subsoiler
bonfire
reclamation
renewal
acreage
land area
dewet
re-afforest
backfire
burn
fountain
igniferous
rib
swale
fire trench
irrigation ditch
burn up
plow in
incinerate
pyrolatrous
deforester
burn down
sludger
squib
purging
mowing
purge
muckrake
monocropped
burn-baited
pyrophilous
self-extinguishing
multialarm
igniferous
pyrolatrous
swidden
caingin
kaingin
swiddener
burnoff
jhumming
fireland
grounds
firebreak
slash
peat bog
bog
irrigation
fallow
cutover
sartage
clearage
slash and burn
dyke
burn-clearing
dump and burn
destruction fire
land clearer
tiller
incineration
cultivator
rakehoe
rehabilitation
subsoiler
reclamation
renewal
acreage
land area
backfire
fountain
swale
fire trench
irrigation ditch
deforester
sludger
squib
purging
mowing
purge
muckrake
swidden
burn off
scorch
unbank
scour
assart
top-drain
deforest
slash
mop up
mud out
burn-beat
police
strip
smother
fire
vell
ablate
waterbomb
till
sweep
shovel out
stank
flog
unrake
dry
rake out
burn out
degrade
beat out
hush
burninate
trench
immolate
fallow
poke
bonfire
dewet
re-afforest
burn
rib
burn up
plow in
incinerate
burn down
verb
- To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
- To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
- To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- (To cause) to become scorched or singed
noun
verb
- To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
- To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
- To search an area thoroughly.
- To run with speed; to scurry.
- To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- To move swiftly over; to brush along.
- To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
noun
noun
- a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
- your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a justification for something existing or happening
- dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
verb
- To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- To create slashes in a garment.
- To criticize cuttingly.
- To swing wildly at the ball.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- To write slash fiction.
- To piss, to urinate.
- To work in wet conditions.
- To reduce sharply.
- To move quickly and violently.
- To strike violently and randomly
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
noun
- A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- A swampy area; a swamp.
- Slash fiction.
- A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- Female genitalia.
- A wild swinging strike of the bat.
- A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A sharp reduction.
- A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- Any similar wide striking motion.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
adv
conj
verb
- To clean up an area destroyed by a natural disaster or by violent activity.
- After they argued, it fell to me to talk to her and try to mop up.
- To win a competition decisively.
- To get rid of (enemies) within a certain area.
- To pitch the final innings especially of a game that is no longer close.
- To consume or get rid of an excess of something.
- To finish something off; to apply a finishing touch
- To fix problems; to correct or repair.
- To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
- To absorb the leftovers of a dish with bread etc., in order to eat them.
verb
- To clean up an area.
- To enforce norms or standards upon.
- To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
noun
- The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
- A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
- People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
verb
- To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- To perform a striptease.
- To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- To take off clothing.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
noun
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- A strip steak.
- The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- A trough for washing ore.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A landing strip.
- A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- A comic strip.
- A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
verb
- To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- To cook in a close dish.
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- To be suffocated.
- to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- To daub or smear.
noun
verb
- To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- To forcibly direct (something).
- To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- To drive away by setting a fire.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- To set off an explosive in a mine.
- To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- To cause an action potential in a cell.
- To cauterize.
adj
noun
- A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- The elements necessary to start a fire.
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
noun
- An area of cutover land.
- The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
- The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
- Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
adj
noun
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
verb
verb
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To surround or guard.
- To stumble or lurch.
- To trample.
- To pack in tightly.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
adj
noun
verb
- To remove moisture from.
- To lose moisture.
- To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
noun
- The process by which something is dried.
- The dry season.
- A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- An area of waterless country.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
adj
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- Athirst, eager.
- Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- Amusing without showing amusement.
- Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
- Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
verb
- To destroy by fire.
- To end one's shift at a job.
- To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
- To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
- To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
- To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit.
- To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
noun
verb
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
noun
noun
- the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- the restoration of someone to a useful place in society
- vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation
- the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises
verb
- To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
- To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
- To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
- To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
- To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
- To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
- To rummage; to feel or grope around.
- To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
noun
- An old, worn-out horse.
- An ice cream cone.
- A lazy person; a dawdler.
- 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia
- A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
- A hit, especially an extra base hit.
- A sack or bag.
- A stupid or uninteresting person.
- A long, wide sleeve.
- A prod, jab, or thrust.
- 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573
- A poke bonnet.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138
- Pokeweed.
- Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
- A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
verb
- To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
- To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
- To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
noun
- A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
- A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
- Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
noun
- a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine
- a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
verb
verb
- destroy by fire
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- undergo combustion
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- cause to burn or combust
- feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- cause to undergo combustion
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- spend (significant amounts of money)
- feel hot or painful
- burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun
- create by duplicating data
- use up (energy)
- damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation
noun
noun
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- A natural source of water; a spring.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- A soda fountain.
verb
adj
verb
- To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
- To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
- To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
- To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
noun
- A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
- A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
- A teasing joke.
- A stalk of celery.
- A single strand of hair.
- Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
- The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
- Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
- A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
- A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
- Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
- Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
- Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
- Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
noun
- A low tract of moist or marshy land.
- A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
- Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
- A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
- A gutter in a candle.
- A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
adj
noun
- A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
- A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed.
- A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck.
- In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface.
- A short article, often published in journals, that introduces theoretically problematic empirical data or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses.
- Any small firecracker sold to the general public, usually in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuse is lit.
- A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc.
- The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
- A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
- An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person.
- In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases.
verb
English words for 'To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.". Hover the mouse over the word you'd like to know more about to view its definition. Click 
to find a better fitting word. Finally, thanks to ChatGPT, the overall results have been greatly improved.
Recent Queries
the pot calling the kettle black
To sentence
patron god
falling to the ground
duck
rinderpest
(baggage) checking
a male comrade or friend
tuberous
catch.
to grow ripe
break time
unassuming
Smooth
jocular.
Hardy-Weinberg principle
coffee grounds
classic car
eyeliner
vagrancy.
untimeliness.
freckle
In or for the meantime
beneath the surface
technology gap
beige
form of martial art using a cane staff
scouring
to carry in
decaffeinated
to squeeze out
lifeblood
overtaking
to stand on tiptoe
to be smashed
to plunge into
good looks
argumentative
to move forward
to guarantee
To harass
hesitant
poisonous.
to vie
dressing
erasure
heroic
moving
entrance
in any case