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Verb
- 1. decimate, kill
- usage: kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- 2. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off, kill
- usage: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
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Definition and meaning of decimate (Dictionary)