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decimating

The word “decimating” has 4 syllables: dec-i-mat-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈdɛs.ə.meɪ.tɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for decimating?

In the thesaurus, “decimating” has 109 synonyms and 43 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for decimating along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for decimating

Antonyms for decimating

  • assembling
  • bringing about
  • building
  • conserving
  • constituting
  • constructing
  • creating
  • doctoring
  • erecting
  • establishing
  • fabricating
  • fashioning
  • fathering
  • fixing
  • forging
  • forming
  • founding
  • framing
  • instituting
  • inventing
  • making
  • manufacturing
  • mending
  • molding
  • organizing
  • patching
  • preserving
  • producing
  • protecting
  • putting up
  • raising
  • rearing
  • rebuilding
  • reconditioning
  • reconstructing
  • remodeling
  • renovating
  • repairing
  • restoring
  • revamping
  • saving
  • setting up
  • shaping

Meanings of decimating

  • verb
    1. To kill one-tenth of a group, (specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
    2. To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.
    3. To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
    4. To exact a tithe or other 10% tax.
    5. To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.
    6. To decimalize: to divide into tenths, hundredths etc.
    7. To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything.
    8. To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality.

Example Sentences

  • The drought is decimating crops across the entire region.
  • Illegal logging is decimating the rainforest at an alarming rate.
  • A new strain of bacteria is decimating livestock populations.
  • The wildfire has been decimating everything in its path.
  • The economic crisis is decimating small businesses nationwide.

On this page you'll find 152 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to decimating, such as: annihilating, assassinating, assembling, beating, besting, blasting, blotting out.

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Related Words

damaging

eating

machine-gunning

  • annihilating
  • blazing
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • bringing down
  • butchering
  • croaking
  • decimating
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing in
  • drilling
  • dropping
  • felling
  • gunning
  • icing
  • killing
  • massacring
  • peppering
  • picking off
  • pistoling
  • pistolling
  • plugging
  • popping
  • potshotting
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • shotgunning
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • tommy-gunning
  • wiping out

abolishing

obliterating

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