decimating in English

verb

1

kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.

the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness

2

kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.

Augustus firmly imposed his discipline on his men: he once dismissed an entire legion in disgrace, and didn't hesitate to decimate troops who would give in to the enemy.

verb

eliminate, carry off, wipe out, eradicate, annihilate, extinguish

Use "decimating" in a sentence

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

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

3. Botrytis mold spreads lik e wildfire, quickly decimating ripe cannabis buds into mush on it’s tyranny to reproduce

4. An explosion like this would create a fireball capable of decimating a few city blocks and a shockwave damaging buildings several kilometers away.

5. Similarly, Christians still hold a grudge over the Muslim conquests of the 7th century, blaming Muslims for decimating a prosperous Phoenician civilization and then Arabizing and Islamizing it

6. In 612 b.c., however, Assyria's capital, Nineveh, was besieged and destroyed by a coalition of Medes, Scythians, and Chaldeans, decimating the previously powerful Assyrian Empire

7. With the Batteringly (for them) wet and windy weather we are having, I am seeing sparrows and tits alongside the finches decimating the fat ball carrier

8. Cairo declined after the mid-14th century, however, when bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, struck the city, decimating its population, which it also did to much of Europe