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Meaning of decimate in English

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decimate
By 1971 women, who had been almost a fourth of the jute workforce, were decimated to a bare 2 per cent of the workforce.
There were areas that were decimated, but they were probably few.
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It was a rebellion against corrupt governing elites who impoverished the state and its people and decimated public services.
Year after year the pregnancies continued; the epidemics and decimating diseases came almost as regularly.
Here y is the vector of filtered response values, decimated to 10-ms sampling interval.
For want of works of irrigation whole populations were periodically decimated by famine.
The first came with the plagues of the 1890s that decimated cattle herds.
Proud armies have often been decimated, even destroyed, by epidemics; wars and thus the fate of peoples have been decided by them.
With droughts and famines come many deaths; since funerals require the sacrifice of cattle, periods of high mortality can decimate the community's herds.
This sea urchin decimates kelp beds and creates barrens, thus completely altering coastal ecosystems.
Rather, it represents a mixture of productive and perceptual aspects, in that the errors originate in the productive domain but were decimated through the action of a perceptual monitor.
Furthermore, the high mortality of larvae on resistant wheat would decimate the parasitoid, and probably prevent it from slowing any increase in the population of virulent midges.
The 33storey hotel - which had a 77 per cent occupancy rate at the time of the blast - was decimated, its lobby covered in charred sofas, overturned tables and caved-in ceilings.
In the same vein, a fading ethnic group may adopt similar priorities to encourage a high birth rate to resuscitate a community decimated by war, disease, or intermarriage.
Worse still, in 1946 a sequence of summer drought and then harvest deluges decimated the grain crop, just as the ration-card system was being drastically cut back.

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毀滅,大量殺戮, 大幅削減…
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decimovat, pustošit…
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decimere, tynde ud…
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mengurangi…
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sát hại nhiều…
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musnah satu persepuluh…
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tynne(s) ut, redusere sterkt…
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毁灭,大量杀戮, 大幅削减…
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