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Decimate   Listen
verb
Decimate  v. t.  (past & past part. decimated; pres. part. decimating)  
1.
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
2.
To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
3.
To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.





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"Decimate" Quotes from Famous Books



... exemption on the ground that he had a conscientious objection to taking life. His application was refused, the tribunal apparently being of the opinion that a man who knew all about meat pies could decimate the German forces without ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 • Various
... petulance: quartz is not gold, although a few grains of gold may be found in quartz. Voltaire is a monkey in mischief, and a spaniel in obsequiousness. He declaims against the cruel and tyrannical; and he kisses the hands of adulteresses who murder their husbands, and of robbers who decimate their gang. ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor


Words linked to "Decimate" :   eradicate, decimation, wipe out, carry off, eliminate


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