Decimate
Synonyms for decimate
verb destroy
wipe out
obliterate
annihilate
slaughter
exterminate
execute
massacre
butcher
stamp out
commit genocide
kill off
Antonyms for decimate
create
build
bear
Usage Notes
The earliest English sense of decimate is “to select by lot and execute every tenth soldier of (a unit).” The extended sense “destroy a great number or proportion of” developed in the 19th century: Cholera decimated the urban population. Because the etymological sense of one-tenth remains to some extent, decimate is not ordinarily used with exact fractions or percentages: Drought has destroyed (not decimated) nearly 80 percent of the cattle.
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