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DECIMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("decimation" is a kind of...):
destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)
Derivation:
decimate (kill in large numbers)
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