[responsivevoice] decimate [/responsivevoice] [ des-uh-meyt ]
The word of the day is ‘decimate’.
The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Yes, the past form of the word is decimated.
It means:
1. Destroy
2. Kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of
3. Eliminate
4. Eradicate
1. Cruelty and cunning could not retain them, but it could decimate a population and lose an army in the attempt.
2. Suddenly a terrible plague broke out in the city and threatened to decimate the population.
3. The inhabitants of the country had been decimated.
4. These are the dreaded wild dogs which decimate the game in the jungle.
5. Absolute principles create division and inspire the temptation to decimate, to expel, to kill enemies.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
annihilate, exterminate, obliterate, slaughter, wipe out, butcher, execute, massacre, commit genocide, kill off, stamp out, demolish, ruin, devastate, dissolve etc.
bear, build, create, construct, breed, mend, necessitate, refill, refresh, revamp, recondition
Quotation:
What to do with a leading business that’s challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple’s willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product’s features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.
Adam Lashinsky
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