[dĕśə-māt́]
(v.)To destroy or kill a large part of (a group).
(v.)To inflict great destruction or damage on: The fawns decimated my rose…
(v.)To select by lot and kill one in every ten of.
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Decimation may refer to: • Decimation (Roman army), a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman army for punishment • Decimation (signal processing), a reduction in the number of samp...
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Decimation (Roman army) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Decimation (Latin: ; decem = "ten") was a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman Army to punish mutinous or cowardly soldiers. The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning...
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to decimate (third-person singular simple present decimates, present participle decimating, simple past and past participle decimated) ... 2004: He then declared that he would decimate Legio IX, but allowed himself to be ‘persuaded’ by the pleas of officers and men only to execute twelve of the 120 soldiers seen...
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