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Originally Posted by Glice
'Decimate' means 'to reduce by a tenth'. That's what China did, was it?
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right. and as soon as I break out
Ye Olde Tyme Machine and go back several centuries, I'll get back to you on it.
I hope this helps:
dec·i·mate
1.to destroy a great number or proportion of:
The population was decimated by a plague. See also: "The other Olympiads were DECIMATED by the Chinese".
2.to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.
3.
Obsolete. to take a tenth of or from.
