Decimation
Synonyms for decimation
noun mass destruction
annihilation
devastation
cataclysm
catastrophe
holocaust
end of the world
Armageddon
Antonyms for decimation
happiness
miracle
good fortune
wonder
Synonyms
noun mass extermination
massacre
carnage
slaughter
mass murder
holocaust
annihilation
ethnic cleansing
mass execution
race extermination
Synonyms
noun killing of many
murder
slaughter
bloodbath
genocide
extermination
carnage
bloodshed
annihilation
butchery
slaying
assassination
internecion
Synonyms
noun utter destruction.
liquidation
eradication
extermination
elimination
extinction
demolition
destruction
obliteration
massacre
ruin
slaughter
extinguishment
demolishment
Antonyms
building
construction
Synonyms
noun massacre
bloodbath
carnage
slaughterhouse
slaughter
killing
annihilation
bloodshed
bloodletting
Synonyms
noun annihilation
liquidation
eradication
slaughter
genocide
elimination
extinction
destruction
excision
obliteration
extinguishment
Synonyms
noun annihilation
destruction
elimination
eradication
excision
extermination
extinction
genocide
liquidation
obliteration
slaughter
Synonyms
noun massacre
butchery
extermination
annihilation
bloodbath
genocide
carnage
slaughter
murder
bloodshed
bloodletting
slaying
assassination
internecion
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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