Crossword clues for decimated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
--Johnson.To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
--Macaulay.To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: decimate)
Usage examples of "decimated".
Navy, which had not suffered even a minor military setback in over sixty years, had been dealt a blow that would have totally eliminated most modern navies, and which decimated America’s carrier air-wing and amphibious capabilities in the Pacific.
The two GIR Battalions holding the center were completely decimated and the GIR Battalions to the right and to the left were being mauled by the American mechanized Companies and their Apache support helicopters that had been tasked with holding them in place.
As you know, our 7th Fleet was decimated in the first such deployment of these weapons on March 15th.
Medea had been decimated in the course of a week and the survivors, both the ones hardy enough to endure the intense fever and pain, and those who were curiously immune, spent their years trying to discover source or cause, cure or vaccine.
She was the one to whom Timozel had bound himself, she had given Axis the power of the emerald fire that had decimated Gorgrael's Skraeling force.
No-one in Borneheld's company knew that it was because Axis and his command had hurt the Skraelings so grievously in the icy wastes above Gorkenfort that the SkraeBolds had needed to regroup the decimated Skraeling forces.
Sigholt is well, and most of the Urqhart Hills peaceful, although the Gryphon decimated an Icarii Wing.
Slowly, achingly slowly, the tide of the Skraelings was lessening as their numbers were decimated by Icarii arrows.
No one in Borneheld's company knew that it was because Axis and his command had hurt the Skraelings so grievously in the icy wastes above Gorkenfort that the SkraeBolds had needed to regroup the decimated Skraeling forces.
From Billy's perspective, while the enemy was losing many aircraft, they seemed more than willing to do so because it was allowing their ground forces, which were nonetheless being terribly savaged by western standards, to continue to advance without being decimated to the point of stalling.
The General was planning on an Allied counter attack into the teeth of that second wave once they thought they had decimated the initial attack.
They had decided not to respond in kind as long as their forces were advancing and not completely decimated by any tactical attack.
Over the next weeks we will see America's puppet regime in Israel fall and be decimated, we will see the Russian capitol fall and all of Europe will be at our feet, and we will see the consolidation of all of North America's most strategic oil reserves and the fall of the entire American state of Alaska.
You have heard no whispers of those armies because many have been decimated, whilst others perhaps continue the war in distant, inhospitable places.
She shrugged aside their efforts, decimated their powers, then left them to Garath or Baaljagg.