Definition of 'decimate'

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1. (verb) decimate kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies 2. (verb) eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off kill in large numbers "the plague wiped out an entire population"
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