for a people or a town to be destroyed/demolished; or, for a town to fall into ruin (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
mixtlatia. destruyrse el pueblo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 57v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.