For someone or something (actor -um-; s actor maN-) to prevent something (patient -on) from multiplying or yielding fruits, as when rats destroy that planted in a field; children destroy flowers; disease decimates a flock of chickens; a man depletes his beginning flock by eating them as they grow to maturity.
hemon; manemon
Hemhemmon: focus is on something continually kept from producing.
-on: hemon