decimate
Meaning of decimate
- A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
- A tenth of something.
- A set of ten items.
- To kill one-tenth of a group, (specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
- To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.
- To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
- To exact a tithe or other 10% tax
- To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.
- To decimalize: to divide into tenths, hundredths etc.
- To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything.
- To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality.
Information about decimate
- The plural form of decimate is: decimates.
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Hyphenation of decimate
dec-i-mate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- decimate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
decimate synonyms
Meaning eliminate:
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate
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Translation of decimate
- French: décimer
- Italian: decimare, annientare, distruggere, sterminare
- Spanish: diezmar, aniquilar, eliminar, extinguir, erradicar, exterminar
- German: dezimieren, vernichten, eliminieren, auslöschen
- Portuguese: dizimar
Anagrams of decimate
Words that rhyme with decimate
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