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