| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Decimate.[Websters]
2. To be tithed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have exterminated or abolished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have ruined, wrecked, razed, deflowered or ravaged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have obliterated or wiped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have demolished, smashed, liquidated, eliminated or disrupted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have squashed or squelched.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb decimate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (decimate) | 1. Kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies.[Wordnet]. 2. Kill in large numbers.[Wordnet]. 3. To take the tenth part of; to tithe.[Websters]. 4. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.[Websters]. 5. To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: decimating, decimated, decimates, decimator, decimators, decimatingly and decimatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DECIMATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
