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| 1. | the processes by which an area becomes a desert. |
| 2. | the rapid depletion of plant life and the loss of topsoil at desert boundaries and in semiarid regions, usually caused by a combination of drought and the overexploitation of grasses and other vegetation by people. |
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n. The transformation of arable or habitable land to desert, as by a change in climate or destructive land use. |
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| the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land; "the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid desertification in China" |
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