decimation
/ˌdɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/
Misollar
- The army suffered a terrible decimation.
- The disease caused the decimation of the population.
ot noun
- (strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
- (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
- A tithe or the act of tithing.
- The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
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