decimate 的定义
dec·i·mat·ed, dec·i·mat·ing.
- to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.
- Obsolete. to take a tenth of or from.
decimate 近义词
destroy
decimate 的近义词 11 个
- annihilate
- exterminate
- obliterate
- slaughter
- wipe out
- butcher
- execute
- massacre
- commit genocide
- kill off
- stamp out
decimate 的反义词 3 个
更多decimate例句
- After the closure of stores decimated the in-store sampling that many beauty brands relied on, Marie Claire launched a direct mail sampling operation, expecting to gather tens of thousands of signups within the first year.
- The ASF outbreak that decimated China’s pig population in 2019 resulted in national pork output hitting a 16-year low.
- That’s as scared as I’ve ever seen Thanos, and if he hadn’t said decimate my entire team to get her off of me, I think she would have done it.
- Stocks have been on a record-shattering tear after a devastating drop-off during the pandemic’s first wave, even as the coronavirus continues to cause mass deaths, halt travel, decimate businesses and push millions into poverty.
- With the coronavirus pandemic still raging and decimating local businesses, Manna, a drone delivery company, gained approval in late October to launch its service in Oranmore, Ireland.
- 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.