In severe infestations, large plants may be defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The Park is largely defoliated, but some trees have hung on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

It is defoliated by both the tent caterpillar and the canker worm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference

Nursery-size trees are more extensively defoliated than larger ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

I have seen every edible tree defoliated to the height of a saddlehorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings] Reference

Mangium seedlings are sometimes also defoliated by Hyphomeces squamosus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

He also set forth some objections to the idea of burning defoliated jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

Many small trees have been entirely stripped and large ones almost defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference

They are a great annoyance, and have defoliated whole vineyards here last fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference

RICK KING, SHANKSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIREMAN: The trees were smoldering, defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2006] Reference

During Phase III, certain unspecified border areas would be selectively defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

And you heard it every day, and after a while we thought he had defoliated the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2004] Reference

The buprestid beetle (Julodisy sp.) defoliated over 50% of a plantation in Rajasthan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 17] Reference

And then there were just lots of individual areas in the peninsula that were defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW: 'I'M IN PERFECT HEALTH'] Reference

Fighter planes were sent to drop napalm in an unsuccessful attempt to ignite the defoliated areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

Initially one flight of two aircraft would cover a 30-km length of road with one defoliated strip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

So …. she decided to become a woman, shaved her legs, under her arms and had her face defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Coulter on Murtha: He Longs “To See U.S. Troops Shot, Humiliated”] Reference

In addition, enemy soldiers tended to avoid defoliated areas because of fear of detection from the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

The only tree that I have lost from winter-killing was one defoliated by the caterpillars early last fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

Leaf-cutter ants have defoliated our peach trees, rose bushes, potato fields and tree plantation seedlings.    From Wordnik.com.  [8: Plant protection and pest control] Reference

I mean where trees aren't actually up rooted, you have them completely defoliated and debarked in some cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 8, 2007] Reference

Trees are sometimes practically defoliated by this pest, and this at a time when a good foliage is most needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple Growing] Reference

The wind, it was hoped, would then spread the fire throughout the defoliated area, creating a firestorm effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

The trees from which a part of the fruit had been removed were defoliated and all but the large limbs were killed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference

Between 1400 and 1420 local time on March 11, 1966, fifteen B-52s dropped M35 incendiary bombs on the defoliated area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

We were in that area for months patrolling four and five days at a time and in and out of defoliated areas all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW: 'I'M IN PERFECT HEALTH'] Reference

Some of the small Chinese chestnuts, ~C. mollissima~, at Mr. Bernath's place, were about one-fourth defoliated in mid-August.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

Cars tossed like toys, trees -- mature oak trees completely splintered and debarked and defoliated, if not completely uprooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 8, 2007] Reference

My trees that I go to inspect every two or three weeks, at one inspection would be leafing out, at the next would be defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference

However, over the defoliated areas, average vertical visibility had improved to 80%, and horizontal visibility had increased to 75%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

Agent Orange defoliated the forests, Agent Blue killed crops, and a lot of both chemicals landed on people, including American troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Mills: Disasters!] Reference

The team estimated the average vertical and horizontal visiblity over non-sprayed areas adjoining the nine defoliated targets as 40% and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

There was no great effect, he said, on higher plants and animals from the increased wind speed and ground temperature in defoliated areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Ranch Hand]

The waters of the Mighty Miss flowed thick and sluggish between their defoliated banks, the waters clouded and gray and choked with debris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armageddon's Children]

Another customer did the same at T2 on Solstice and now the upper canopy is defoliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWi - All News] Reference

Plus, the Military would have defoliated all of Central America looking for the Predator's ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference