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Sentence example with the word 'decimate'
decimate
annihilate, commit mass murder, deal destruction, despoil, engorge, gut with fire, massacre, ruinate, throw into disorder, unmake, wipe out
Definition
v.
kill one in every ten
Last update: September 2, 2017
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He would
decimate
all life on the planet using the very ore that had brought his family wealth and power.
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The earthquake has
decimate
d the population by a large scale.
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The government
decimate
d the grants by a great extent.
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All kinds of calamities overspread the earth and
decimate
d the race,--war, pestilence, and famine.
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All the works are too numerous, even to be
decimate
d.
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The national finances were disordered, the population
decimate
d, and the provinces dismembered.
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The influx of hungry settlers, together with an occasional bad season,
decimate
d their ranks.
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The colonies that remain are in a sadly
decimate
d condition.
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Their
decimate
d ranks could not withstand the charge of two armies.
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