1. decimate - Noun
2. decimate - Verb
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNow for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. Haruki Murakami
They want to create rather than decimate. Paul Butterfield
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquet by giving him away. George Bernard Shaw
Come decimate dictatorships and overthrow regimes In exotic far-off places the vacation of your dreams You'll assemble puppet governments and play the hand of God We're an equal opportunity crime fighting squad Citizen CIA. Dropkick Murphys
the plague wiped out an entire population Source: Internet
Cyclops eventually uses the Phoenix Egg to become one with the Phoenix Force again and uses his powers to decimate the Children of Tomorrow. Source: Internet