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kill or destroy a large proportion; or seriously weaken

Hezbollah fighters decimated loyalist militias in Beirut.

the Revolution decimated my family.
E. Phillips Oppenheim -- The Yellow Crayon
As predicted, it swooped through the decimated doorway without knocking so much as a sliver of stone from the medieval walls.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
Granted that his generation, however bruised and decimated from this Victorian war, were the heirs of progress.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Eddis's Thief spoiled those plans, but you came about well, and here you are, once again ready to see my army decimated and your Medes heroes."
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
From my spot, I surveyed the scenery and noticed few signs of the war that had decimated our lives.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
Having chased them for the better part of ten minutes, the hornets began the winding journey hack to their decimated nest.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
Chips of plaster and brick and wood were flying as the interior was decimated.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
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.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

(editor's note: 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.)

Yet, when all was said and done, who, in that terrorstricken, decimated populace, had scope for any activity worthy of his manhood?
Albert Camus -- The Plague
He said it was all over school, about how I'd decimated Lana in front of Josh.
Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
When the remaining forces finally reach the foot of Kolvir, he'll decimate them there.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
The army of the Scyldings was weakened, decimated.
John Gardner -- Grendel
He did not like this news; he had counted on the brothers Baratheon decimating each other in bloody battle.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
Unsurprisingly, the adult section had been decimated by looters; my choices seemed limited to hunting gear and industrial jumpsuits.
Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds
A decimated cheese board rested on an ottoman, and cracker crumbs littered the rug, and someone's forgotten shawl was slung across the back of a chair.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
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.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
Decimated but stubborn, they were among those who chose a fugitive life rather than Oklahoma.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved
Sometimes a wolf would die, but never were they decimated again like that first time.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

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