Decimate
Related Definitions
[v] kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
[v] kill one in every ten of, as of mutineers in Roman armies
Related Terms
annihilate, bring to ruin, butcher, commit carnage, commit genocide, commit mass murder, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, demolish, depopulate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, exterminate, go