destroy vegetation
Frequency: 6.07.0 per million words
To damage plants so badly that they die.
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- Forest fires often destroy vast areas of vegetation.
- The severe drought threatened to destroy all the local vegetation.
- Construction work will inevitably destroy some natural vegetation.
- Pesticides can destroy beneficial vegetation along with weeds.
- Heavy grazing by livestock can destroy delicate vegetation.
- The acid rain began to destroy the forest vegetation.
- Uncontrolled development could destroy the unique coastal vegetation.
- They used heavy machinery to destroy the overgrown vegetation on the plot.
- A volcanic eruption can completely destroy all vegetation in its path.
- Climate change is predicted to destroy certain types of vegetation globally.