0 the act of killing a something in large numbers, or reducing something severely: --
the virtual decimation of the population through influenza
It comes from a party which for 18 years presided fairly passively over the decimation of our fishing communities.
Over the past few years it has seen the decimation of its base.
The second, contradictory, argument is that, without hunting, the foxes' habitats would disappear, leading to the decimation of the fox population.
That means the decimation of training managers' programmes.
Despite its virtual decimation, it is an industry in which the workers and the city still take great pride.
We have seen the destruction of the shipping industry and the decimation of the collieries.
It has stumbled and staggered through half a decade of decimation.
Responding to the massive decimation of crops by locust swarms in the mid-1890s, people not only engaged in protective rituals but also asserted official culpability for the disaster.
