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Word: Decimate
Speech Type: Verb
late 16th century: from Latin decimat- ‘taken as a tenth’, from the verb decimare, from decimus ‘tenth’. In Middle English the term decimation denoted the levying of a tithe, and later the tax imposed by Cromwell on the Royalists (1655)
ˈdɛsɪmeɪt
kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of
Short Definition:kill, destroy, or remove large proportion of
Examples:- the inhabitants of the country had been decimated
kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group
Short Definition:kill one in every ten of as punishment for whole group
Examples:- the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers
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