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decimate

verb
/ˈdesɪmeɪt/
/ˈdesɪmeɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they decimate
/ˈdesɪmeɪt/
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he / she / it decimates
/ˈdesɪmeɪts/
/ˈdesɪmeɪts/
past simple decimated
/ˈdesɪmeɪtɪd/
/ˈdesɪmeɪtɪd/
past participle decimated
/ˈdesɪmeɪtɪd/
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-ing form decimating
/ˈdesɪmeɪtɪŋ/
/ˈdesɪmeɪtɪŋ/
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  1. [usually passive] to kill large numbers of animals, plants or people in a particular area大量毁灭,大批杀死(某地区的动物、植物或人)
    • be decimated (by something) The rabbit population was decimated by the disease.这种疾病使大批兔子死亡。
  2. decimate something (informal) to severely damage something or make something weaker严重破坏;大大削弱
    • Cheap imports decimated the British cycle industry.廉价进口产品严重削弱了英国的自行车工业。
  3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin decimat- ‘taken as a tenth’, from the verb decimare, from decimus ‘tenth’. In Middle English the term decimation denoted the levying of a tithe, and later the tax imposed by the English statesman Cromwell on the Royalists (1655).

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