David Lindenmayer, a professor of ecology at the Australian National University, says droughts and fires can decimate koala populations.
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Decimate
//ˈdɛsɪmeɪt//
Synonyms for "decimate" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
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39 translations across 20 languages.
Catalan
3 entries- delmar verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
- delmar verb (to reduce by one-tenth)
- delmar verb (to severely reduce)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 十一抽杀 verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
Dutch
3 entries- decimeren verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
- decimeren verb (to reduce to one-tenth)
- decimeren verb (to severely reduce)
Esperanto
1 entries- dekumi verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
Finnish
4 entries- alentaa resoluutiota verb (computer graphics: to replace with lower resolution)
- desimoida verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
- hävittää verb (to severely reduce)
- lähes tuhota verb (to severely reduce)
French
1 entries- décimer verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
German
4 entries- dezimieren verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
- verheeren verb (to devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely)
- zugrunde richten verb (to devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely)
- übel zurichten verb (to devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely)
Greek
1 entries- αποδεκατίζω verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
Hungarian
3 entries- megtizedel verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
- megtizedel verb (to reduce to one-tenth)
- megtizedel verb (to severely reduce)
Italian
1 entries- decimare verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
Macedonian
1 entries- десеткува verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
Middle English
1 entries- tithen verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
Māori
1 entries- whakawhiri verb (to severely reduce)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قیرمق verb (to severely reduce)
Portuguese
2 entries- dizimar verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
- dizimar verb (to severely reduce)
Russian
2 entries- истребля́ть verb (to severely reduce)
- опустошать verb (to severely reduce)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- десетковати verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
Spanish
2 entries- diezmar verb (to reduce to one-tenth)
- diezmar verb (to severely reduce)
Swedish
3 entries- decimera verb (Roman history: to kill one out of ten men)
- decimera verb (to reduce to one-tenth)
- decimera verb (to severely reduce)
Turkish
3 entries- azaltmak verb (to severely reduce)
- biçmek verb (to severely reduce)
- kırmak verb (to severely reduce)
Sample sentences
28 total sentences available.
Our team will decimate yours on the field tomorrow.
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In order to justify its war crimes, the United States bombards and annihilates entire countries in the name of liberty and democracy. Of course, companies that sell missiles to the Pentagon, as well as mercenary companies, have very little to do with liberty and democracy. In order to have more petroleum, the American economy needs to decimate millions of lives, and these wars are also beneficial to companies that sell weapons or rent out killers.
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Hezbollah has the potential to decimate Israeli forces inside Lebanon.
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