Definitionn. destroying or killing a large part of the population
Last update: September 29, 2015
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The pollution lead to the decimation of the city. [Please select]
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The parallels or climata 2 drawn through places, of which the longest day is of equal length and the decimation (distance) from the equator is the same, he maintained, ought to have been inserted at equal intervals, say of half an hour, and the meridians inserted on a like principle. [Please select]
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The decimation of society is now imperceptible and permanent, now periodical and violent; it depends upon the course which property takes. [Please select]
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They had relied on the pressure of famine and decimation by sickness, the steady effects of sorties, with consequent fatalities and desertions, to bring the Liberator of the Slaves to his knees. [Please select]
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