| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To destroy, ruin, exterminate, quash or spoil.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle 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] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being bloody.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being devastating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being crushing, smashing or shattering.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "DECIMATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1789. (references) |
