沙漠化 shāmòhuà desertification Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 沙漠 shāmò noun desert land area covered by sand with very little water and sparse vegetation化 huà affixparticle [...-ize] Suffix appearing after nouns or adjectives that expresses a transformation into a certain state or quality, meaning "-ize" or "-ization"