Sentence example with the word 'decimate'

decimate

annihilate, commit mass murder, deal destruction, despoil, engorge, gut with fire, massacre, ruinate, throw into disorder, unmake, wipe out

Definition v. kill one in every ten

Last update: September 2, 2017


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He would decimate all life on the planet using the very ore that had brought his family wealth and power.   [verb]

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The earthquake has decimated the population by a large scale.   [verb]

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The government decimated the grants by a great extent.   [verb]

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All kinds of calamities overspread the earth and decimated the race,--war, pestilence, and famine.   [Please select]

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All the works are too numerous, even to be decimated.   [Please select]

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The national finances were disordered, the population decimated, and the provinces dismembered.   [Please select]

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The influx of hungry settlers, together with an occasional bad season, decimated their ranks.   [Please select]

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The colonies that remain are in a sadly decimated condition.   [Please select]

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Their decimated ranks could not withstand the charge of two armies.   [Please select]

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