Examples of 'decimate' in a sentence
Meaning of "decimate"
decimate (verb) - to destroy a large proportion of something, typically a population or area
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- To kill one-tenth of a group, (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
- To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.
- To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
- To exact a tithe or other 10% tax
How to use "decimate" in a sentence
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Just decimate one every few days.
This man is going to decimate the whole area.
Decimate means to destroy one tenth of something.
Did not mean to decimate your social life.
Decimate means execute one out of ten.
But we will not decimate an entire species.
In the great calamities that decimate the.
That would decimate the entire city.
A single buffalo jump could decimate a herd.
To almost decimate the entire shadow world.
The storm is raging to decimate the enemy.
Could decimate new york in one week.
These festivities will decimate our livestock.
It would decimate attendance at my candlelight suppers.
All we know is they are going to decimate their staff.
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Pests can decimate crops and produce.
Our wormhole technology will decimate your planet.
That will decimate and unite anybody.
They hear about another army and decimate it.
These parasitoses decimate the mollusk populations.
To decimate a good portion of the population of this country.
Do not let him decimate everything then.
Decimate means to reduce by one tenth.
Its power can decimate a planet.
Decimate does not mean destroy everything.
Who would decimate the unions.
Decimate means to kill a tenth part of.
Savage is going to decimate to get what he wants.
And sickness and contagions could decimate crews.
They can decimate an entire production.
She watched the defense decimate your case.
We can not decimate this healthy mackerel stock.
Not only can this midge decimate grain.
Let us decimate this dance floor.
Another solar event could decimate our atmosphere.
Then decimate this unjust world.
An army of them will decimate the whole crop.
They decimate the farm and ranch lands.
They have even been known to decimate entire settlements.
These exhausted and feverish ones gradually decimate.
It could easily decimate an entire town.
Additional wall construction will decimate it.
This would decimate the franchise.
It took about five seconds to decimate the egg.
Disease can decimate the population.
Decimate armies with only his words for weapons.
When parasites decimate the livestock.
But would his fistful of crystal really decimate a room.
That would decimate our defense.
A frontal assault at this point would decimate our ranks.
