Defenition of the word decimation

• Defenition of the word decimation

  • destroying or killing a great proportion of the population (literally every tenth person)
  • destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)

Hypernyms for the word decimation

• • destruction
  • devastation

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