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Decimate
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What's The Definition Of Decimate?
[v] kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
[v] kill one in every ten of, as of mutineers in Roman armies Synonyms | Synonyms for Decimate: annihilate | carry off | eliminate | eradicate | extinguish | wipe out Related Terms | Find terms related to Decimate: annihilate | bring to ruin | butcher | commit carnage | commit genocide | commit mass murder | condemn | confound | consume | damn | deal destruction | demolish | depopulate | depredate | desolate | despoil | destroy | devastate | devour | dissolve | engorge | exterminate | gobble | gobble up | gut | gut with fire | havoc | incinerate | lay in ruins | lay waste | massacre | murder wholesale | ravage | raze | ruin | ruinate | shipwreck | slaughter | slay en masse | swallow up | throw into disorder | unbuild | undo | unleash destruction | unleash the hurricane | unmake | upheave | vandalize | vaporize | waste | wipe out | wrack | wreak havoc | wreck See Also | kill Decimate In Webster's Dictionary \Dec"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decimated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Decimating}.] [L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to
decimate (in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See
{Decimal}.]
1. To take the tenth part of; to tithe. --Johnson.
2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of;
as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
--Macaulay.
3. To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army
in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
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