decimateverb [ T usually passive ]
uk/ˈdes.ɪ.meɪt/us/ˈdes.ə.meɪt/to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely:
Populations of endangered animals have been decimated.
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Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- malignant
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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