Associations to the word «Decimate»

Wiktionary

DECIMATE, verb. (Roman history) To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group.
DECIMATE, verb. To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent.
DECIMATE, verb. (historical) To exact a tithe or tax of 10 percent.
DECIMATE, verb. To reduce to one-tenth.
DECIMATE, verb. To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely.
DECIMATE, verb. (computer graphics) To replace a high-resolution model with one of lower resolution but acceptably similar appearance.

Dictionary definition

DECIMATE, verb. Kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies.
DECIMATE, verb. Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin