decimate

English - Turkish

Definition of decimate in English Turkish dictionary

katliam

kıran girmek

büyük kısmını yok etmek

Her on kişiden birini öldürmek

osoea sosdas

{f} önemli ölçüde azaltmak

{f} kırıp geçirmek

{f} çoğunu öldürmek

{f} büyük bir kısmını yok etmek

{f} her onuncu adamı öldürmek

Related Terms

decimation

kırım

decimation

katliam

decimation

imha

decimation

büyük kısmını yok etme

decimation

{i} onda birini öldürme

decimation

{i} büyük bir kısmını yok etme; büyük bir kısmı yok olma

English - English

Definition of decimate in English English dictionary

To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely

To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent

(Roman history) To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group

To exact a tithe, or tax of 10 percent

To reduce to one-tenth

To replace a high-resolution model with one of lower resolution but acceptably similar appearance

to destroy a measurable or large proportion of

{f} destroy a large part of

{v} to take the tenth, to tithe

To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease

To take the tenth part of; to tithe

To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny

kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them. The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers

To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group

To decimate a system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly. a recession which decimated the nation's manufacturing industry. to destroy a large part of something (decimatus, past participle of decimare , from decem )

kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

Related Terms

decimation

The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population

decimation

A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal

decimation

The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence

decimation

{n} the act of taking the tenth

decimated

past of decimate

decimates

third-person singular of decimate

decimating

present participle of decimate

decimation

A tithing

decimation

{i} giving of a tenth, giving of a tithe (Archaic); total destruction; killing

decimation

A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment

decimation

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

decimation

The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war

Hyphenation

de·ci·mate

Turkish pronunciation

desımeyt

Synonyms

annihilate, butcher, commit genocide, execute, exterminate, kill off, massacre, obliterate, slaughter, stamp out, wipe out

Pronunciation

/ˈdesəˌmāt/ /ˈdɛsəˌmeɪt/

Etymology

() From Latin decimare ‘to take the tenth (decimus) part of anything,’ in particular referring to the levying and payment of tithe and also the practice of capital punishment applied to one man at random (by lot) out of every ten in a legion.

Tenses

decimates, decimating, decimated