- verbdecimate (verb) · decimates (third person present) · decimated (past tense) · decimated (past participle) · decimating (present participle)
- kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of:"the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness" · "the American chestnut, a species decimated by blight"
- drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something):"plant viruses that can decimate yields"
- historicalkill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group:"the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"
Originlate 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).Similar and Opposite Wordsverb
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