0 to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely:
Populations of endangered animals have been decimated.
1 to destroy large numbers of people, animals, or other creatures, or to harm something severely:
Overfishing has decimated the cod population.
We decimated public transportation in the 1950s and ’60s.
By 1971 women, who had been almost a fourth of the jute workforce, were decimated to a bare 2 per cent of the workforce.
There were areas that were decimated, but they were probably few.
It was a rebellion against corrupt governing elites who impoverished the state and its people and decimated public services.
Year after year the pregnancies continued; the epidemics and decimating diseases came almost as regularly.
Here y is the vector of filtered response values, decimated to 10-ms sampling interval.
For want of works of irrigation whole populations were periodically decimated by famine.
The first came with the plagues of the 1890s that decimated cattle herds.
Proud armies have often been decimated, even destroyed, by epidemics; wars and thus the fate of peoples have been decided by them.
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