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decimate 音标拼音: [d'ɛsəm ,et] vt. 每十人杀一人,大批杀害 每十人杀一人,大批杀害 decimate v 1: kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies 2: kill in large numbers; " the plague wiped out an entire population" [ synonym: { eliminate}, { annihilate}, { extinguish}, { eradicate}, { wipe out}, { decimate}, { carry off}] Decimate \ Dec" i* mate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Decimated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Decimating}.] [ L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to decimate ( in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See { Decimal}.] 1. To take the tenth part of; to tithe. -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease. [ 1913 Webster] 54 Moby Thesaurus words for " decimate": annihilate, bring to ruin, butcher, commit carnage, commit genocide, commit mass murder, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, demolish, depopulate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, exterminate, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, havoc, incinerate, lay in ruins, lay waste, massacre, murder wholesale, ravage, raze, ruin, ruinate, shipwreck, slaughter, slay en masse, swallow up, throw into disorder, unbuild, undo, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmake, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, waste, wipe out, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck
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