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Verb
/ˈdesəˌmāt/,
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decimated, past participle; decimated, past tense; decimates, 3rd person singular present; decimating, present participle;
  1. Kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of
    • - the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness
    • - the American chestnut, a species decimated by blight
  2. Drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something)
    • - plant viruses that can decimate yields
  3. Kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group

  1. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
  2. eliminate: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
  3. (decimation) destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
  4. (Decimation (Roman army)) Decimation (decimatio; 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 "removal of a tenth."
  5. (Decimation (signal processing)) In digital signal processing, decimation is a technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal. The element which implements this technique is referred to as a decimator.
  6. (Decimation (story)) Decimation is the late 2005 Marvel Comics storyline spinning out of the House of M limited series, that focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witch's stripping nearly all of the mutant population of their powers, reducing a society of millions to one of scant hundreds.
  7. To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group; To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent; To exact a tithe, or tax of 10 percent; To reduce to one-tenth; To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely; To replace a high-resolution model with one ...
  8. (Decimated) Dot Cottoned, Druck-steaming, Drunk as a Lord, Drunk as a skunk
  9. (Decimated) On time series plots where some subsampling has occurred, this will be indicated by a label which says Decimated (N), where N is the interval between samples. Thus N=3 means every third value is shown. ...
  10. (Decimation) Is reducing the output sampling rate by ignoring all but every Nth sample. When a digital filter reduces the bandwidth of a signal of interest so the filter output is over-sampled if the input sample rate is preserved. See appnote:  AN9603
  11. (Decimation) a sentence carried out against an entire unit which had mutinied, deserted, or shown dereliction of duty. ...
  12. (decimation) The (Combinatorial) Object Server's information on Permutations (Pascal and C); Michael Gilleland's Permutation Generator (Java); Glenn Rhoads' Snippets (c); (Pascal, Fortran, Mathematica, and C); (Fortran).
  13. (decimation) The process of throwing away portions of a bitmap image when reducing it in size.
  14. (DES ih-mate) tr. verb. 1. To destroy or kill a large part of. 2. To select by lot and kill one in every ten of.
  15. To reduce by a tenth. The term properly refers to the Roman practice of disciplining a military unit by selecting a tenth of its force by lot and killing them. It is incorrectly used by the media to refer to a large number of casualties in a group.
  16. means to ruin or reduce by tenths, not to gain victory. [So, you probably don’t really hope to decimate your fellow poker players in the game tonight.]