Wipe out a large number

Usage examples of decimate.

Amerikan Peace Movement whose theory of justice was that the brutal Amerikan Army should move out of Southeast Asia so that the Cambodians could fertilize their fields with the bodies of Cambodians so that the Vietnamese could prey on the corpse of a decimated nation so that the Chinese could punish the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese could drown their own Chinese in the sea.

Arabic expletives as his best Amn Al-Khans battalion was decimated by the ISET and the F-16s.

Decimated by the Revolution, the French church changed its complexion so much that the pope was forced to anathematise the entire Gallican hierarchy, refusing to consecrate any new bishops.

They are part of a sizable language group that includes the large Athabascan tribe of northern Canada, the Navajo, the Hoopa on the coast of northern California and the decimated group who lived near Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon.

Naya Gaon, situated in the heart of the forest, was one of the first villages in the Bhabar to be decimated by the disease.

It had only taken three days for Bonita Vista to break down and decimate his best and strongest line of defense.

By the time anyone did, the flames were sweeping through the Cuyahoga Valley, decimating the shipyards at the Great Lakes Towing Company, and leaping a full five stories into the air.

That overcrowding and climate can not be the sole factors is indicated by the fact that the Negro race has been decimated, wherever it has met tuberculosis.

To decimate the Lower Aliens, to demonstrate our fittingness to survive and blossom in greater and greater Twist Frees.

A pincer movement from the north and south, aimed at Kursk, could surround and decimate the cream of the Soviet forces.

The rest, decimated by dysentery and small-pox, began their march to Lake Champlain, with bands of Mohawk, Oneida, and Mohegan allies.

The Soviets and North Koreans had plundered the vast natural prawn beds and fisheries of the rich warm Mozambican current along the eastern coast, while foreign adventurers with Frefimo licenses and approval had decimated the crocodile population of Lake Cabora Bossa.

I would help her to the living room couch, her bones birdlike, her blood count so decimated that her white skin bloomed with bruises, a neutropenic garden.

They and the other mechanicals on Neverland are systematically decimating the delegates to the Conference.

Without enough food to feed all of their people, the harsh winter spent in the Khar foothills of northern Nuqut would surely decimate the Oirat tribes.