DECIMATING Synonyms

• complete destruction of a building

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• ruinously destructive and wasting

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• reduced to nothingness

• mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• remove completely from recognition or memory

• do away with completely, without leaving a trace

• kill in large numbers

• change from fractions to decimals

• change to the decimal system

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• overwhelm or overpower

• terminate, end, or take out

• get rid of something

• kill in large numbers

• dismiss from consideration or a contest

• eliminate from the body

• remove from a contest or race

• remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

• kill in large numbers

• destroy completely, as if down to the roots

• extinguish by crushing

• put an end to; kill

• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights

• terminate, end, or take out

• kill in large numbers

• a levy of one tenth of something

• an offering of a tenth part of some personal income

• exact a tithe from

• levy a tithe on (produce or a crop)

• pay a tenth of one's income; pay one tenth of, especially to the church

• be successful; achieve a goal

• remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

• kill in large numbers

• use up (resources or materials)

• kill in large numbers

• eliminate completely and without a trace

• remove from memory or existence

• mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

• wipe out the effect of something