1.从十个...中抽一
2.抽杀[罚]...的十分之一人
3.(传染病等)使死去多人
4.【史】向...征收(十一税)
1.从十个...中抽一
2.抽杀[罚]...的十分之一人
3.(传染病等)使死去多人
4.【史】向...征收(十一税)
1.to spoil or destroy something, for example by getting rid of a lot of people
1.It was a totally unexpected tactic and in just a few minutes the whole enemy army was decimated.
这是个完全出乎意外的战术，仅仅几分钟后整个敌军就土崩瓦解。
2.Near this town's decimated waterfront, Shigenobu Kimura pushed thick sludge out the front door of his funeral home.
就在东松岛市遭受重创的海边附近，木村重信（ShigenobuKimura）将厚厚的淤泥从他经营的殡仪馆前门拉出去。
3.But with high mortality rates, a mother's large litter can be decimated; only two or three clubs survive.
但因死亡率很高，所以母亲的一窝幼崽可能会大部分死亡；只有两三只幼崽能存活下来。
4.And populations in small, isolated habitats are unlikely to be replenished once decimated by outbreaks of fire or other catastrophes.
一旦突然发生火灾或因其它灾难而大批死亡，栖息地少而孤立的种群将很难恢复。
5.This juggernaut has decimated basic consumer protections and created the biggest gap between rich and poor since the Great Depression.
这头（权力）巨兽已经大大地削弱了对基本消费群体的保护从而在穷人和富人之间制造出自大萧条以来最大的鸿沟。
6.Travel agents: While not dead today, this profession is one of many that's been decimated by the Internet.
导游：这个职业虽然现在还存在，但是不久之后也会被互联网搞死。
7.They did not notice the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month.
那个月里，霍乱正在巴黎流行，死亡惨重，他们全不在意。
8.They loaded the folders onto the rear of a bicycle rickshaw and walked them out of the decimated town.
他们将这些资料安放在一辆人力三轮车后面，走出了这座已经被毁得差不多的城镇。
9.In the last two months, headhunters have been scouring America's decimated financial sector mostly for ethnic Chinese executives.
在过去两个月内，猎头公司一直在遭受重创的美国金融行业搜寻华裔高管。
10.Yet, despite all her evident downsides, Palin offers the decimated Republican party a rare commodity in their post-Obama misery: hope.
但尽管佩林有种种明显的缺点，她还是能给严重受挫并在后奥巴马时代可怜兮兮的共和党提供一项稀缺资源：希望。