decimation

decimation[,desi'meiʃən]

• n.decimate的变形

decimate['desimeit]

• vt.
  • 大批杀死，大量毁灭，杀灭…中的十分之九，杀死(或毁坏)…的大部分：

    The population was decimated by a plague.

    人口中的大部分被一场瘟疫所毁。

    Famine decimated the population.

    饥荒使人口大批丧生。

  • (以抽签方式)选(人中)的十分之一；消灭(人中)的十分之一
  • (原指在古罗马军队中以抽签方式)处死(反叛士兵等)的十分之一
  • [废语]取…的十分之一
  • [废语]对…征收什一税；把(农产品的十分之一缴税)
• 变形:

  vt.decimated.decimating

• sclerotia
• thas
• circumambients
• magnetic bias
• Grecianize, grecizing
• catmint
• vulcanians
• silk-screen process
• coadjutrix
• tootsies
• garden house
• octane
• describes
• oracularities
• rise superior to
• tyranny
• sea-worn
• she'll
• too little, too late
• nervous system
• Enteric Fevers
• wring sth's neck
• soft-pedal
• janning
• comb through sth
• bite the dust
• erythrophage
• be bare of credit
• make oneself (或 the)agreeable to someone
• line discipline
• land yachts
• drop on one's knees
• zinnia
• solo
• valuates
• humourlessly
• glutinousness
• E.P.T.
• sodium tetrafluorescein
• chemiculture
• struttingly
• coppertone
• back up
• lose no chance for
• ready cooked / prepared etc
• necessitous
• carwash
• palaeoneurologist
• betides
• palpating
• Basra belly
• ruin marble
• LWL
• chorusing
• consolute temperature
• zymogenous
• cracking
• zag
• mudpack
• bludges
• cluster developing
• admin
• Münsterberg, Hugo
• castest
• warning triangles
• fairyisms
• stray line
• counterclaimer
• gasworks
• hammam
• vitriolizing
• epilation
• medical entomology
• tapiolite
• come home
• employees
• mes-
• impact crater
• sillies
• chloromethane
• sea letters
• sicklemen
• Gladstone
• De Lancey, James
• as a parrot
• corf
• hobblings
• Bhudan
• Assyrians
• I/I'll bet!
• hibernoma
• pockmarked
• schoolmarmish
• bank club
• apertometers
• grockling
• homocercy
• pinch roller
• bottle-holder
• with egg on one's face