decimate

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verb

1. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Group:
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, carry off
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. kill in large numbers
- the plague wiped out an entire population
• Syn:
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, carry off
• Derivationally related forms:
decimation, wipeout (for: wipe out), extinction (for: extinguish), annihilative (for: annihilate), annihilation (for: annihilate), annihilator (for: annihilate)
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, carry off