destroy, deprive, undermine, decimate, obliterate, circumscribe, eviscerate, enfeeble, emasculate, trample, marginalize, subjugate, befoul, debase, despoil, stultify, infest, encroach upon, erode, scarify, diminish, overgrowing, encrust, usurp, defang, obstruct, desiccate, impoverish, depopulate, disfigure, overpopulate, fetter, coarsen, displace, besmirch, scandalise, malign, tyrannize, ruin, beggaring, deplete, defoliate, traduce, uproot, suborn, tyrannise, distort, fatten, entrench, efface, debilitate, propagandise, derange, ride roughshod, disserve, ossify, disorientate, misconceive, cripple, undercut, waterlog, constrain, ghettoise, ravish, devalue, rend, weaken, blacken, strew, prevaricate, commodify, dragooning, bulldoze, destabilize, mutilate, fossilize, embitter, extirpate, impede, overawe, starve, monopolize, devour, aggrandize, disintegrate, remove, disorganise, subserve, pulverise, poach, denigrate, subsume, flatten, reabsorb, endanger, collectivize, bastardize, dislocate, degrade, unmake, propagate, wither

burn off, deforest, disafforest, disforest

clear

bare, denudate, strip