decimated
past simple and past participle ofdecimate
| 单词 | decimated |
| 释义 | decimated past simple and past participle ofdecimate decimate verb[Tusually passive] uk/ˈdes.ɪ.meɪt/us/ˈdes.ə.meɪt/tokillalargenumberof something, or toreducesomethingseverely: Populations ofendangeredanimalshave been decimated. Killing
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making smaller or less Examplesofdecimateddecimated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. By 1971 women, who had been almost a fourth of the jute workforce, weredecimatedto a bare 2 per cent of the workforce. From theCambridge English Corpus There were areas that weredecimated, but they were probably few. From theCambridge English Corpus It was a rebellion against corrupt governing elites who impoverished the state and its people anddecimatedpublic services. From theCambridge English Corpus Here y is the vector of filtered response values,decimatedto 10-ms sampling interval. From theCambridge English Corpus For want of works of irrigation whole populations were periodicallydecimatedby famine. From theCambridge English Corpus The first came with the plagues of the 1890s thatdecimatedcattle herds. From theCambridge English Corpus Proud armies have often beendecimated, even destroyed, by epidemics; wars and thus the fate of peoples have been decided by them. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, it represents a mixture of productive and perceptual aspects, in that the errors originate in the productive domain but weredecimatedthrough the action of a perceptual monitor. From theCambridge English Corpus The 33storey hotel - which had a 77 per cent occupancy rate at the time of the blast - wasdecimated, its lobby covered in charred sofas, overturned tables and caved-in ceilings. From theCambridge English Corpus In the same vein, a fading ethnic group may adopt similar priorities to encourage a high birth rate to resuscitate a communitydecimatedby war, disease, or intermarriage. From theCambridge English Corpus Worse still, in 1946 a sequence of summer drought and then harvest delugesdecimatedthe grain crop, just as the ration-card system was being drastically cut back. From theCambridge English Corpus The consequence has been disastrous as the region has suffered massive pollution of land, water, flora and fauna, which hasdecimatedthe resources on which the region survives. From theCambridge English Corpus Wealth differentiation was tempered by periodic drought and disease episodes, which uniformlydecimatedherds in a resource management regime that assured access to all community members. From theCambridge English Corpus Following that, with the economics of the countryside prevailing, the hare population wasdecimated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Industry has beendecimatedor allowed to decay. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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