Crossword-Solution: DECIMATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decimate | v. t. | To take the tenth part of; to tithe. |
| Decimate | v. t. | To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. |
| Decimate | v. t. | To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| DECIMATE | anagram | MEDICATE |
We have 34 clues for the answer “DECIMATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Take the tenth part of. | 1 answer |
| Cause great harm | 1 answer |
| Destroy a large part of | 1 answer |
| Destroy en masse | 1 answer |
| Give a dose | 1 answer |
| Kill every tenth man | 1 answer |
| Nearly wipe out | 1 answer |
| Reduce very heavily | 1 answer |
| Drastically reduce | 3 answers |
| Reduce drastically | 4 answers |
| Decollate | 9 answers |
| Decapitate | 9 answers |
| behead | 11 answers |
| Devastate | 29 answers |
| Wipe out | 34 answers |
| Gut | 41 answers |
| exterminate | 41 answers |
| dilapidate | 42 answers |
| efface | 43 answers |
| annihilate | 45 answers |
| massacre | 46 answers |
| Ravage | 47 answers |
| eradicate | 51 answers |
| Demolish | 53 answers |
| dismember | 59 answers |
| Diminish | 59 answers |
| Slaughter | 61 answers |
| Wreck | 66 answers |
| Obliterate | 67 answers |
| Dissolve | 70 answers |
| dismantle | 72 answers |
| Reduce | 72 answers |
| Total | 83 answers |
| Dash. | 103 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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Sentences with DECIMATE (5)
The Eastern empire would not have obeyed, and could not have been conquered.] In the passage of the emperor through Bologna, a mutiny of the guards was excited and appeased by the secret policy of Stilicho; who announced his instructions to decimate the guilty, and ascribed to his own intercession the merit of their pardon.
The siege of Pekin 19 was long and laborious: the inhabitants were reduced by famine to decimate and devour their fellow-citizens; when their ammunition was spent, they discharged ingots of gold and silver from their engines; but the Moguls introduced a mine to the centre of the capital; and the conflagration of the palace burnt above thirty days.
His unsuspected testimony may, in this instance, obtain more credit than the bold challenge of Tertullian, when he addresses himself to the fears as well as the humanity of the proconsul of Africa, by assuring him, that if he persists in his cruel intentions, he must decimate Carthage, and that he will find among the guilty many persons of his own rank, senators and matrons of noblest extraction, and the friends or relations of his most intimate friends.
The siege of Pekin [19] was long and laborious: the inhabitants were reduced by famine to decimate and devour their fellow-citizens; when their ammunition was spent, they discharged ingots of gold and silver from their engines; but the Moguls introduced a mine to the centre of the capital; and the conflagration of the palace burnt above thirty days.
Even he had no protection and no safety; for any new excursion of less fortunate barbarians would desolate his possessions and decimate his laborers.
Quotes with DECIMATE (3)
They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen and Mrs. Rajagopalan. Velutha introduced himself and his paralyzed brother Kuttappen (although he was fast asleep). He greeted them with the utmost courtesy. He addressed them all as Kochamma [an honorific title for a woman] and gave them fresh coconut water to drink. He chatted to them about the weather. The river. The fact that in his opini…
Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
As Waterman has noted: In today’s business environment, more than in any preceding era, the only constant is change. Successful organizations effectively manage change, continuously adapting their bureaucracies, strategies, systems, products, and cultures to survive the shocks and prosper from the forces that decimate the competition.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).