If I decimate this meal, I'll only have eaten ten percent of it.
The army is preparing to decimate the city.
My daughter is involved in a movement to decimate the local park by keeping its grounds clean.
You can not decimate all the people. King Decimated all the traitors.
the entire classroom was decimated because of the flood.
Decimate - to destroy or reduce by one tenth, which means 10% destroyed, but 90% remains. This word is often used incorrectly in place of the word devastate.Sentence: Although a disaster was said to decimate the city's homes, 90% of the homes remained intact. Because I had eaten a big breakfast, I was only able to decimate my lunch.
the team decimated our team by beating us 12-0
using wood for energy generation and paper production is decimating world forests.
Decimate Christendom was created in 2004-03.
decimal is an adjective, decimate is a verb.
Decimate the Weak was created on 2008-02-05.
To take the tenth part of; to tithe., To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny., To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
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