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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Decimate (0.01158 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Decimate.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: decimate
membunuh besar-besaran
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: decimate
decimate
v 1: kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
2: kill in large numbers;
“the plague wiped out an entire
population” [syn:
eliminate,
annihilate,
extinguish,
eradicate,
wipe out,
carry off]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Decimate
Decimate
\Dec"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Decimated; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Decimating.] [L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to
decimate (in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See
Decimal.]
1. To take the tenth part of; to tithe. --Johnson.
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2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of;
as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
3. To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army
in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
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