Decimate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To destroy or kill a large part of (a group).
  • v. Usage Problem To inflict great destruction or damage on: The fawns decimated my rose bushes.
  • v. Usage Problem To reduce markedly in amount: a profligate heir who decimated his trust fund.
  • v. To select by lot and kill one in every ten of.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group.
  • v. To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent.
  • v. To exact a tithe, or tax of 10 percent.
  • v. To reduce to one-tenth.
  • v. To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely.
  • v. To replace a high-resolution model with one of lower resolution but acceptably similar appearance.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
  • v. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of.
  • v. To destroy a considerable part of
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To take the tenth part of or from; tithe.
  • To select by lot and put to death every tenth man of: as, to decimate a captured army or a body of prisoners or mutineers (a barbarity occasionally practised in antiquity).
  • Loosely, to destroy a great but indefinite number or proportion of: as, the inhabitants were decimated by fever; the troops were decimated by the enemy's fire.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. kill in large numbers
  • v. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
    • Verb Form
    decimated    decimates    decimating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    kill   
    Form
    decimated    decimating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tithe   
     
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