decimate|decimated|decimates|decimating in English

verb

[dec·i·mate || 'desɪmeɪt]

destroy a large part of

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1. Many adversities decimate the fluke numbers.

2. Our ranks have been decimated.

3. Disease has decimated the population.

4. The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers.

5. Populations of endangered animals have been decimated.

6. The population was decimated by a plague.

7. Cheap imports decimated the British cycle industry.

8. Her range of weaponry could easily decimate any convoy she encountered.

9. The Peck family had been decimated by heart disease.

10. Synonyms for Annihilates include destroys, demolishes, wrecks, ruins, devastates, smashes, razes, shatters, decimates and totals

11. The resulting explosion destroys Mount Arreat, ravages much of the countryside , and decimates Baal's army.

12. The dolphin population has been decimated by tuna fishing.

13. Student numbers have been decimated by cuts in grants.

14. War can decimate a population, leaving large numbers of orphans and widows.

15. Smoke from the fires decimating Australia have Circumnavigated the globe on the jetstreams.

16. Per Degaton unleashes the Armageddon Virus, which decimates the world's population, leaving it ripe for conquest.

17. Devastators should be used to decimate infantry and attack units ranges.

18. They can decimate the population of these baby amphibians in a pond system.

19. Now, his entire fleet is in danger of being decimated.

20. Humanity had to abandon its warlike ways, Wells said, or technology would decimate it.

21. The transformation of the river may well decimate the considerable fishery resources already available.

22. Silber says the tax rollback would decimate basic services for the needy.

23. The Green Lantern Corps ranks were decimated by the Parallax-possessed Jordan.

24. The rays in turn decimated the bay scallop populations around North Carolina.

25. Synonyms for Annihilating include destroying, demolishing, wrecking, ruining, devastating, smashing, razing, shattering, decimating and totalling