Crossword-Solution: DECIMATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decimation | n. | A tithing. |
| Decimation | n. | A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. |
| Decimation | n. | The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DECIMATION | anagram | MEDICATION |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DECIMATION (5)
Any licensing of computers, information sys- tems, would be morally abhorrent - a veritable decimation of the Bill of Rights.
The decimation of society is now imperceptible and permanent, now periodical and violent; it depends upon the course which property takes.
Committee-men fall, And majors-generall, No more doe those tyrants reign; There’s no sequestration, Nor new decimation, For the King enjoyes the sword again.
But I turn from the record of the mistakes, follies, vices, miseries, and crimes which marked the wickedest and most uncalled- for wars of European history, to consider their ultimate results: not logical results, for these were melancholy,--the depopulation of Europe; the decimation of the nobility; the poverty which enormous drains of money from their natural channels produced; the spread of vice; the decline of even feudal virtues.
The middle classes, being mostly engaged in peaceful pursuits, suffered less of this decimation of their finest young men; and to that fact I attribute much of their increasing preponderance, social, political, and intellectual, to this very day.
Quotes with DECIMATION (3)
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history. ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortune! Wouldn't anyone with the slightest sense of adventure, or the most weakly flickering respect for intellect, gladly exchange the old cosmic comfort for a look at something so weird and wonderful - yet so real - as *Opabinia*?
We tend to take summer's vitality for granted, when in actuality it is just one prolonged drought, or disease, away from decimation.