decimate

decimate is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
2. transitive verb. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
3. transitive verb. To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
4. verb. kill in large numbers

   "the plague wiped out an entire population"

   Synonyms: annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish

5. verb. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

Synonyms

annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in decimate:

medicate

Common word forms

decimated, decimates, decimating

Words from these letters

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