It will sweep through England and wipe out entire villages.

Smallpox wiped out villages in a matter of months.

Some would maintain that wiping out entire villages by accident on purpose was more than mischief!

Approximately one third of all the people in Europe died of this plague, sometimes wiping out whole towns and villages.

Wiped out entire villages hostile to the radicals in Khartoum.

At the beginning, the malais had wiped out whole villages.

He is alleged to have ordered military operations that wiped out entire villages, sometimes with chemical weapons, killing at least 50,000 people.

They were known to wipe out entire villages for so slight an insult as calling someone a derogatory name.

Ebola wiped out villages, but did little more.

Epidemics of the latter were said to have wiped out several villages in the late 19th century.