Definitions for decimate

decimate dec·i·mate

Spelling: [des-uh-meyt]
IPA: /ˈdɛs əˌmeɪt/

Decimate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 266 anagrams from letters in decimate (acdeeimt).

Definitions for decimate

verb (used with object)

  1. to destroy a great number or proportion of:
  2. to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.
  3. Obsolete. to take a tenth of or from.

Origin of decimate

1590-1600; Latin decimātus, past participle of decimāre “to punish every tenth man chosen by lot,” verbal derivative of decimus “tenth,” derivative of decem ten; see <

Examples for decimate

And now, the plan is not only to decimate public-sector unions, but all unions—to deplete the money they can spend on politics.

Absolute principles create division, and inspire the temptation to decimate, to expel, to kill enemies.

When we decimate the funding for hospital preparedness, we put ourselves in great peril.

You wish to shed royal blood and to decimate the nobility of the kingdom, do you?

You meant to let the royal blood, and to decimate the nobility of France.

These are the dreaded wild dogs which decimate the game in the jungle.

Instead we must decimate the mid-level leadership ISIS relies on.

If he caught them on the steep ice between the two cedar clumps he could decimate them with ease.

One set of officials advocated for a campaign to decimate ISIS in both countries by striking ISIS targets across Syria.

And, from the south, chronic wasting disease is poised to decimate the elk herds.

Word Value for decimate
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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