decimated

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With every passing hour, it becomes a little trickier to find food and water in the markets of La Guaira, which was decimated by Wednesday's quakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

Egg producers have blamed a historic avian flu outbreak that decimated the hen population.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

She says they learned about the police raids through a Facebook post, which showed their home had been "decimated".

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Past marine heat waves have decimated California’s kelp, “with bull kelp habitats declining 90% in Northern California since 2014,” Jaros said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

Another is that the Indigenous populations were decimated by diseases brought by the Europeans such as smallpox and diphtheria.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz