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decimate
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    From my spot, I surveyed the scenery and noticed few signs of the war that had decimated our lives.†  (source)
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    There had never been much family to begin with and the years had decimated the rest.†  (source)
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    Our militaries had been decimated, but there were still functional units on every continent.†  (source)
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    Decimated but stubborn, they were among those who chose a fugitive life rather than Oklahoma.†  (source)
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    When the remaining forces finally reach the foot of Kolvir, he'll decimate them there.†  (source)
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    Disrupt government services, cut off supply lines, transportation, eliminate communications, and then confine civilians indoors before decimating the industrial base, in this case by cutting off power.†  (source)
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    First of all, if I was expected to come to Yamacraw Island to preside over the intellectual decimation of forty kids, you selected the wrong boy.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Especially disturbing to the naval contingent were reports from down below that Italian troops now were shot quite casually for disciplinary reasons, and that the Italian generals, like their French counterparts, were executing men in decimations for crimes they had not: committed.†  (source)
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    He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body.†  (source)
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    Although there had indeed already been a trapdoor in the chaplain's office, it proved too costly to decimate the cafeteria below it, which accommodated the drop.†  (source)
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    He did not like this news; he had counted on the brothers Baratheon decimating each other in bloody battle.†  (source)
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    An American air strike ended Zarqawi's life in June 2006, and by the end of the decade al-Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated.†  (source)
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    M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it in under his arm and went out.†  (source)
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