depave

词形变化

depaved depaves 三单 depaves depaving depaving 现在分词 depaved 过去式 depaved 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To undo the act of paving; to remove pavement (especially if it is in the form of asphalt, concrete or the like) so as to restore the land to a more natural state.

    及物

    Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars.

    They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator

    The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden.

    This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed.

词源

From de- + pave.

来源：wiktionary