DECIMATE
- to select by lot and kill every tenth man of.
- can mean both to destroy a large number of plants, animals, people, etc.
- to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
- exact a tax of 10 percent from poor as a decimated Cavalier John Dryden
- to destroy a large part of [v DECIMATED, DECIMATES, DECIMATING]
- means to reduce drastically especially in number or to cause great destruction or harm to.
- to destroy heavily [v DECIMATED, DECIMATING, DECIMATES]
- reduce drastically especially in number cholera decimated the population
- cause great destruction or harm to firebombs decimated the city an industry decimated by recession
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