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decimate
 
Verb decimate has 2 senses
  1. decimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
    --1 is one way to     kill
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
    --2 is one way to kill
    Derived form: noun decimation1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
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