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Decimation   /dˈɛsəmˌeɪʃən/   Listen
Decimation

noun
1.
Destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot).





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"Decimation" Quotes from Famous Books



... established a hospital. Nearly every case he treated recovered. I never, myself, saw the treatment described in the preceding paragraph, but have heard it described by persons who have witnessed it. The decimation among the Indians I knew of personally, and the hospital, established for their benefit, was a Hudson's Bay building not a stone's ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant


Words linked to "Decimation" :   decimate, destruction, devastation


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