defoliate

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Others defended the choice: "'Defriend' makes me think of 'defoliate' and, well, I dunno, it sounds weird," one wrote.
拥护者则这样写：“‘defriend’让我想起‘defoliate’，嗯，我也不知道，总之听起来怪怪的。”
This annoying pest is harboured in the soil beneath the bush and manifests as a mass of tiny caterpillars that can defoliate the plant overnight.
这种令人厌烦的害虫生活在鹅莓树底下的土壤里，是一种能够在一夜之间破坏到所有树叶的虫子。
Infestations of these caterpillars defoliate oaks and other hardwood trees but usually do no permanent damage.
横行的毛虫使得橡树落叶和其他硬木树但是通常不会有持久的损害。

To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
defoliation