Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive verb
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
- 2transitive verb
To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
- 3transitive verb
To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
- 4verb
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
- 5verb
kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
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