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Definition of the day : « decimation »

  • As in massacre : noun killing of many
  • As in annihilation : noun utter destruction.
  • As in butchery : noun massacre
  • As in extermination : noun annihilation
  • As in extinguishment : noun annihilation
  • As in pogrom : noun massacre
  • As in genocide : noun mass extermination
  • As in apocalypse : noun mass destruction
Example sentences :
  • They, too, feared another insurrection and a second decimation.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
  • Was this the case with even a decimation of the army who rushed to defend Washington?
  • Extract from : « The Oxford Book of American Essays » by Various
  • What is our compensation for the decimation of our young men?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 » by Various
  • The Texans in their escape and conflicts had lost five men, and Santa Anna demanded the decimation of the rest.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 » by Various
  • Then the figure-four trap springs up in the hedgerow and the sedge while the work of decimation goes more rapidly along.
  • Extract from : « Our Vanishing Wild Life » by William T. Hornaday
  • The Shirt-tail battalion and the bluegrass battalion stood in peril of decimation in their maiden engagement.
  • Extract from : « The Code of the Mountains » by Charles Neville Buck
  • At last he shall flourish for a little time, but the decimation of Neustria shall hurt him.
  • Extract from : « Old English Chronicles » by Various
  • Followed by decimation of tribes by toleration of the whisky trade and the conveyance of loathsome disease.
  • Extract from : « Shadow and Light » by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
  • Are no brave soldiers beaten to death with rods when a routed army is punished by decimation?
  • Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
  • Emigration was, in their eyes, a more tedious and costly process for the decimation of Irish Catholics.
  • Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870 » by Various