0 present participle of decimate
1 to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely:
Populations of endangered animals have been decimated.
Year after year the pregnancies continued; the epidemics and decimating diseases came almost as regularly.
It would be a recipe for decimating the postal service.
It is decimating the fishing stock and the natural feeding cycle of fish.
I shall not be a party to decimating still further the widow's mite.
That is decimating the fleet on the west coast.
Our first effort was, after seizing the country, to rescue it from the fire and blood which was decimating its population.
A balance has to be struck between overmanning—which is obviously inefficient and costly for consumers—and decimating the workforce.
First, we need to develop research into the parasites, diseases and viruses decimating these hard-working insects.
