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Synonyms for decimation
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : des-uh-meyt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛs əˌmeɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for decimation
- annihilation
- Armageddon
- butchery
- decimation
- demolishment
- elimination
- end of the world
- eradication
- ethnic cleansing
- excision
- extermination
- extinction
- extinguishment
- genocide
- holocaust
- internecion
- killing
- liquidation
- mass execution
- mass murder
- massacre
- murder
- obliteration
- race extermination
- ruin
- slaughter
- slaughterhouse
- slaying
Définition of decimation
Origin :- mid-15c., from Late Latin decimationem (nominative decimatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin decimare "the removal or destruction of one-tenth," from decem "ten" (see ten). Earliest sense in English was of a tithe; punishment sense is from 1580s; transferred sense of "much destruction, severe loss" recorded from 1680s.
- 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
- 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
Antonyms for decimation
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