What does "decimation" mean?
Decimation: A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war. Milman.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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