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单词 decimate
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decimate
verb[Tusually passive]
uk
/ˈdes.ɪ.meɪt/us
/ˈdes.ə.meɪt/
tokillalargenumberof something, or toreducesomethingseverely:
毁灭，大量杀戮；大幅削减
Populations ofendangeredanimalshave been decimated.濒危动物的数量已经大幅减少。
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Becoming and making smaller or less
(Definition ofdecimatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

decimate| American Dictionary

decimate
verb[T]
us
/ˈdes·əˌmeɪt/
todestroylargenumbersofpeople,animals, or othercreatures, or toharmsomethingseverely:
Overfishing has decimated thecodpopulation.
We decimatedpublictransportationin the 1950s and ’60s.
(Definition ofdecimatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdecimate

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By 1971 women, who had been almost a fourth of the jute workforce, were decimated to a bare 2 per cent of the workforce.
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There were areas that were decimated, but they were probably few.
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It was a rebellion against corrupt governing elites who impoverished the state and its people and decimated public services.
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Year after year the pregnancies continued; the epidemics and decimating diseases came almost as regularly.
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Here y is the vector of filtered response values, decimated to 10-ms sampling interval.
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For want of works of irrigation whole populations were periodically decimated by famine.
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The first came with the plagues of the 1890s that decimated cattle herds.
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Proud armies have often been decimated, even destroyed, by epidemics; wars and thus the fate of peoples have been decided by them.
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This sea urchin decimates kelp beds and creates barrens, thus completely altering coastal ecosystems.
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Rather, it represents a mixture of productive and perceptual aspects, in that the errors originate in the productive domain but were decimated through the action of a perceptual monitor.
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Furthermore, the high mortality of larvae on resistant wheat woulddecimatethe parasitoid, and probably prevent it from slowing any increase in the population of virulent midges.
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The 33storey hotel - which had a 77 per cent occupancy rate at the time of the blast - was decimated, its lobby covered in charred sofas, overturned tables and caved-in ceilings.
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In the same vein, a fading ethnic group may adopt similar priorities to encourage a high birth rate to resuscitate a community decimated by war, disease, or intermarriage.
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Worse still, in 1946 a sequence of summer drought and then harvest deluges decimated the grain crop, just as the ration-card system was being drastically cut back.
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The consequence has been disastrous as the region has suffered massive pollution of land, water, flora and fauna, which has decimated the resources on which the region survives.
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