Cryptic crossword clue
Asteroid often crashed clearing a lot of trees 13

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 13 letter word DEFORESTATION

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What does DEFORESTATION mean?

DEFORESTATION noun
  1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
  2. A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.

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