decimate

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

• oust
• nystatins
• aberrationist
• have one’s feet under sb’s mahogany
• elliptic point
• as mad as a hornet
• curdles
• reflection loss
• ylium ion
• overweight
• stier
• chersophyte
• fatigue of metals
• T method
• electromotions
• participled
• long leg
• Acanthometrida
• triumphings
• extraparliamentary
• bisulfides
• sept
• get the advantage over
• non-Newtonian fluid
• percussion fuse
• Panglossian
• anagrammatically
• Pembroke Welsh corgi
• norethindrones
• q.n.s.
• endocytotic
• skew surface
• conflict management
• co-operator
• do sth till you are blue in the face
• Pantophthalmidae
• heroicize
• prevalences
• clumpish
• field of play
• catastrophic error
• boy's play
• screw cap
• security analyst
• entering angle
• equiphase wave surface
• reactionary
• die at
• stay someone's hunger
• spectacle frames
• admirableness
• stick out
• agglutinogens
• off the press
• resolutioner
• have a hate on someone
• pleats
• skilless
• heavings
• self-raised
• steelmakings
• herbaria
• Genesitic
• overspender
• masonary saw
• irinite
• failure-prone
• microsurgery
• swing saw
• schleper
• debilitate
• methionic acid
• alphagalactosidase
• pay sth into sth
• throw oneself at someone's head
• Bonaire
• radiotelemetric
• wasteness
• tarres
• no object
• the supernatural
• kaolinizes
• lie to
• patent leathers
• Coligny, Gaspard de
• self-composedly
• school board
• theorbo
• compulsive overeater / gambler / spender / liar etc
• jump balls
• continually
• boxcar circuit
• banjo hit
• CWISs
• in the fullness of time
• That’s (quite) another pair of shoes.
• Stone's theorem
• contemporarily
• piste
• hand-sewn