Word Finder - decimating

verb

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To kill one-tenth of a group, (specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.

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To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.

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To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.

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To exact a tithe or other 10% tax

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To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.

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To decimalize: to divide into tenths, hundredths etc.

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To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything.

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To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality.

Examples of decimating in a Sentence

The war had wreaked havoc on Europe, decimating its male population and economy.

Starting in the 1600s, grape blights and diseases hit many of the wine grapes hard, decimating many of the best vineyards in southern France and throughout Europe.

After awakening feeling at peace, he was close to pulling a Rhyn and decimating the world around him in an explosion of raw fury.

Damian would've exploded by now, probably decimating everything in the vicinity.

He retaliated by decimating the army.

Again, it must have been the pestilence decimating Milan in1484-1485which gave occasion to the projects submitted by Leonardo to Ludovico for breaking up the city and reconstructing it on improved sanitary principles.

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