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    decimate
    /ˈdɛsɪmeɪt/

    verb

    • 1. kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of: "the inhabitants of the country had been decimated"
    • 2. kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group: historical "the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"

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