Choosing words in politics

[deltex1]

Related to DECIMATE

Synonyms
annihilate, cream, destroy, demolish, desolate, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck


Related Words
beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against); blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate; erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away); dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake; blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out; despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize; assassinate, butcher, cut down, dispatch, execute, fell, kill, kill off, massacre, mow (down), murder, slaughter, slay, take out, zap
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate

 

[deltex1]

Must be an all progtard evening....

 

[NYcarbineer]

The first definition of 'decimate' is:

1.Kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage of.

Are you trying to insinuate that someone has wrongly claimed to have killed a large percentage of some group?

You would be the one who is wrong.

 

[deltex1]

Definition of DECIMATE

1
: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of


Sorry einstein....

 

[NYcarbineer]

Definition of DECIMATE

1
: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of


Sorry einstein....

Google

 

[NYcarbineer]

Definition of DECIMATE

1
: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of


Sorry einstein....

Are you aware that when you use a word,

it only needs to fit one definition of that word in order to have been used properly?

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