ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: VERB
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- To treat as worthless, to vilify.
- Kill in large numbers
- To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely.
- To reduce to one-tenth.
- To exact a tithe, or tax of 10 percent.
- To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent.
- To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group.
- Kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- Kill in large numbers
- To replace a high-resolution model with one of lower resolution but acceptably similar appearance.
ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To destroy completely.
- To reduce to nonexistence.
- To defeat decisively.
- To convert (a subatomic particle) to energy or high-energy particles by annihilation.
- To be completely destructive.
- To participate in annihilation. Used of particles and antiparticles.
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ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
- To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of.
- To inflict great destruction or damage on.
- To destroy or kill a large part of (a group of people or organisms).
- To reduce markedly in amount.
- To select by lot and kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers).
- To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
- To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of.
- To destroy a considerable part of
ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Annihilated.
- To reduce to nothing; deprive of existence; cause to cease to be.
- To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists: as, to annihilate a forest by cutting and carrying away the trees; to annihilate an army; to annihilate a house by demolishing the structure; also, to destroy or eradicate, as a property or an attribute of a thing.
- Loosely, to destroy a great but indefinite number or proportion of: as, the inhabitants were decimated by fever; the troops were decimated by the enemy's fire.
- To select by lot and put to death every tenth man of: as, to decimate a captured army or a body of prisoners or mutineers (a barbarity occasionally practised in antiquity).
- To take the tenth part of or from; tithe.
ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: RELATED WORDS
- Clobber, Wipe, Overwhelm, Crush, Slay, Kill, Obliterate, Exterminate, Destroy, Carry off, Wipe out, Extinguish, Eliminate, Eradicate, Decimate
- Deplete, Obliterate, Eviscerate, Ravage, Cripple, Reduce, Ruin, Destroy, Devastate, Carry off, Extinguish, Wipe out, Eliminate, Eradicate, Annihilate
ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Clobber, Wipe, Overwhelm, Crush, Slay, Kill, Obliterate, Exterminate, Destroy, Carry off, Wipe out, Extinguish, Eliminate, Eradicate, Decimate
- Deplete, Obliterate, Eviscerate, Ravage, Cripple, Reduce, Ruin, Destroy, Devastate, Carry off, Extinguish, Wipe out, Eliminate, Eradicate, Annihilate
ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- This power is calculated to annihilate totally the state governments.
- It took just 15 years to annihilate a species.
- Calgar used it to completely annihilate the Daemon Prince.
- Ahasuerus immediately issued a decree to annihilate them.
- She really knows how to annihilate a scene.".
- Those who accepted her, she would not annihilate.
- Later, Saul failed to totally annihilate the Amalekites.
- Fuel demand increase, but do not annihilate it.
- Forget annihilate the moss, mold, mildew and algae.
- Decorum dastardly dazzle deceit, demolish demur, annihilate denigrate.
- She can also decimate a stack with her melee attack.
- This disease can decimate your prayer plant if not controlled.
- Leyland cypresses, or the woolly adelgids that often decimate hemlocks.
- My deck will decimate towers in seconds if raged out.
- We cannot allow one virus to decimate this industry overnight.
- As if I needed another reason to decimate Brude.
- Sending icicles everywhere, mages decimate entire dungeons with ease.
- They are trained to kill, decimate and destroy.
- Yet, fossil fuels continue to decimate our ecosystem.
- This spell alone will decimate heavily armored units.
ANNIHILATE vs DECIMATE: QUESTIONS
- What was the policy of Turkish government to annihilate the Armenian children?
- What episode of Star Trek was the original Operation Annihilate?
- What happens when triplets annihilate to generate singlet states?
- What happens when opposite dislocations meet and annihilate?
- Do matter and antimatter annihilate or release energy?
- Is decimate the only word in English with a single meaning?
- What factors should be considered when using decimate?