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    decimation


    1. The decimation, however great, came about through disease, murder, suicide, and overwork through slaving


    2. decimation of elephants, hippos, ostrich, and rhinoceros in the


    3. The Soviet casualties, Russian and the other nationalities of the Union, show 20m dead and 10m wounded in a country with a pre-war population of 200m; decimation in its most literal sense, Theo; one in ten destroyed


    4. As if hearing her thoughts, one of the bulbous-pods burst; stressed to decimation as she disrupted its branch


    5. With the decimation of the police forces in the southern states and the number of distraught people there, we are liable to see wide scale riots and looting soon


    6. And finally, after the decimation of local populations through warfare and disease, slaves were brought in from the Old World by Spain and other Imperial powers to provide the intense labor necessary for high production agriculture


    7. in discriminate decimation for a few dollars worth of thin that is more than expected


    8. ” It being the continued, seemingly unstoppable decimation of our planetary home and a disgustingly huge percentage of all who live on it!


    9. “Not just a tree, my friend; we are speaking of the decimation of an entire forest


    10. though rejoicing at the decimation

    11. With the decimation of Cambridge's army, she said, the castle towers and parapets were not as secure as they'd once been


    12. decimation by pests, all of which would aid in general the destruction of our food


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    "decimation" definitions

    destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)