DECIMATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("decimation" is a kind of...):

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Derivation:

decimate (kill in large numbers)

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