Word Meaning

Meaning of "decimates" and the crossword clue

- Destroy a significant proportion of
- Annihilates
- Destroys greatly
- To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
- To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
- To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.