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decimate

verb as in destroy

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And now, the plan is not only to decimate public-sector unions, but all unions—to deplete the money they can spend on politics.

And, from the south, chronic wasting disease is poised to decimate the elk herds.

When we decimate the funding for hospital preparedness, we put ourselves in great peril.

Instead we must decimate the mid-level leadership ISIS relies on.

One set of officials advocated for a campaign to decimate ISIS in both countries by striking ISIS targets across Syria.

These are the dreaded wild dogs which decimate the game in the jungle.

Soon the artillery of both armies opened, and a rain of cannon balls began to decimate the opposing ranks.

This was an ominous hint that he intended to decimate them, after the fashion of Field-Marshal Liposcak.

One might easily decimate a whole population, as indeed happened in the South Sea Islands when smallpox was introduced.

Our men continued to decimate the enemy so thoroughly that they had scarcely five men on deck alive or unwounded.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to decimate, such as: annihilate, exterminate, obliterate, slaughter, wipe out, and butcher.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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