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desertification(encyclopedia)
desertification(dictionary)

tantalizing (oh) and desertification (iou)


tantalizing (oh)



making you feel a strong desire to have or do something
::the tantalizing smell of fried bacon
-- tantalizingly adv
::She was tantalizingly out of reach.

desertification (iou)



desertification noun. L20.
[from DESERT noun2: see -FICATION.]
The process by which fertile land becomes desert.
de'sertify verb trans. make desert, cause desertification of L20.