0 past simple and past participle of decimate --
1 to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely: --
Populations of endangered animals have been decimated.
Industry has been decimated or allowed to decay.
Following that, with the economics of the countryside prevailing, the hare population was decimated.
Wealth differentiation was tempered by periodic drought and disease episodes, which uniformly decimated herds in a resource management regime that assured access to all community members.
The consequence has been disastrous as the region has suffered massive pollution of land, water, flora and fauna, which has decimated the resources on which the region survives.
Worse still, in 1946 a sequence of summer drought and then harvest deluges decimated the grain crop, just as the ration-card system was being drastically cut back.
In the same vein, a fading ethnic group may adopt similar priorities to encourage a high birth rate to resuscitate a community decimated by war, disease, or intermarriage.
The 33storey hotel - which had a 77 per cent occupancy rate at the time of the blast - was decimated, its lobby covered in charred sofas, overturned tables and caved-in ceilings.
Rather, it represents a mixture of productive and perceptual aspects, in that the errors originate in the productive domain but were decimated through the action of a perceptual monitor.
