DECIMATIONS Synonyms

• the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

• an event that completely destroys something

• a final state

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed

• an event that results in total destruction

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

• the act of removing or getting rid of something

• the bodily process of discharging waste matter

• analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

• the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

• the murder of a competitor

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• complete annihilation

• the act of exterminating

• destruction by annihilating something

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• ruinously destructive and wasting

• an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

• an event that results in destruction

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• 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

• To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:

• To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:

• To compose the tenth part of something.

• To grant, concede.

• A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :

• Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).

• A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.

• A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

• Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.

• A reward, grant, or concession.