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Cosa (chi) è Decimate - definizione
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Decimate; Decimation (disambiguation)
decimate
(decimates, decimating, decimated)
1.
To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers...
VERB: V n
2.
To decimate a system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly.
...a recession which decimated the nation's manufacturing industry.
VERB: V n
Decimate
·vt To take the tenth part of; to Tithe.
II. Decimate ·vt To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
III. Decimate ·vt To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
decimate
['d?s?me?t]
¦ verb
1. kill or destroy a large proportion of.
drastically reduce the strength of.
2. (in ancient Rome) kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers) as a punishment for the mutiny of the whole group.
Derivatives
decimation noun
decimator noun
Origin
ME: from L. decimat-, decimare 'take as a tenth', from decimus 'tenth'.
Usage
The earliest sense of decimate, 'kill one in every ten of', has been more or less totally superseded by the more general sense 'kill or destroy (a large proportion of)'. Some traditionalists argue that this later sense is incorrect, but it is clear that this is now part of standard English.
Wikipedia
Decimation
Decimation, Decimate, or variants may refer to:
- Decimation (punishment), punitive discipline
- Decimation (signal processing), reduction of digital signal's sampling rate
- Decimation (comics), 2006 Marvel crossover spinoff House of M
- Decimate (game show), 2015 BBC television
- The Decimation, an event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Esempi dal corpus di testo per Decimate
1. "The US will do anything to decimate us," he says.
2. We subsidise their gold–plated pensions, while they decimate ours.
3. "They seek to decimate their numbers, to foist upon vulnerable people abortion, sterilization and contraception."
4. "The regime is showing no leniency, it wants to decimate dissent.
5. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo promised to hunt down and cripple, if not decimate,‘‘ those responsible.