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decimating

/des-uh-meyt/US // ˈdɛs əˌmeɪt //UK // (ˈdɛsɪˌmeɪt) //

毁灭性的,破坏性的,斩钉截铁,破坏性

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v.有主动词 verb
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    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.

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Examples

  • 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.