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To: Webster Groves who wrote (51787)5/26/2006 5:08:38 PM
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Merriam-Webster provides several usages:

Main Entry:decimate
Pronunciation:*de-s*-*m*t
Function:transitive verb
Inflected Form:-mated ; -mating
Etymology:Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare, from decimus tenth, from decem ten
Date:1660

1 : to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
2 : to exact a tax of 10 percent from *poor as a decimated Cavalier John Dryden*
3 a : to reduce drastically especially in number *cholera decimated the population* b : to destroy a large part of *firebombs decimated large sections of the city*
–decimation \*de-s*-*m*-sh*n\ noun
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