音标:['desimeit] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
vt. 每十人杀一人, 大批杀害
v. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
词型变化:过去分词 : decimated ; 过去式 : decimated ; 现在分词 : decimating ; 第三人称单数 : decimates ; 名词复数形式 : decimates
考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
动词100%

decimate的用法和样例:

例句

  1. Student numbers have been decimated by cuts in grants.助学金削减後,学生人数大大减少。
  2. Disease has decimated the population.疾病使大部分人死亡。

经典引文

  • All my parents' friends, all my friends' brothers were getting killed. Our circle was decimated.

    出自:R. Lehmann
  • Plague decimated Moscow in 1771.

    出自:V. Cronin
【近义词】

10、Refute 第十位:Refute Refute means to disprove with evidence and yet its commonly used, even by professional writers, to mean rebut which carries a similar meaning but isnt quite so strong, as it can also mean argue against. The example here

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(173) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间
学英语单词
actual displacement
Amedeo Modigliano
amphibalanus (balanus) reticulatus
anatreptically
anomalous resistance
armor-piercing incendiary tracer
avoidances
base of calculation
Better late than never.
Bischofswerda
blast-furnace treatment
bridgess
caustobiolith
century meltdown
Chamalieres
chang jiang river
chlorbenzuron
corp
cross-compound single-flow
crystal-form factor
dill ?
direct father
dishtowels
district through train
emergency brake application
emmenagogology
fire protection engineering
fluocinolone acetonide acetate
fluorquinolones
galloping
gas factor
genus pontederias
Glucaron
Gouville
grain boundary flow
greisinger
half speed ahead
have with
hexadentate
hot geothermal brine type deposit
hunting and gathering
hysteresis curve
impregnating mangle
inenition
inhomogeneous superconductor
innamorato
input/output limited
inventory costing and control
kowalsky
Liberius
loan-to-income
longitudinalis sulci
lunar crack
macroscopic concept
malcontentedness
medical cases
megaverdicts
multipath channels
multiplication by variables
munuc
Nistafungin
normal intraocular tension
overmedication
overule
page printer telegraphy
palm something off
pivoted
pneumoconiosis
pole tension
pole-zero configuration
precompensating
product cost accounting
queefing
rag rug
RichLink
RmGshT
roll back the tide of war
roundspersons
semitasteful
semology
sensitive switch
slew acceleration
specular image
spiraling rate
sporotrichoid lymphangitis
Stachylepis
step up pulse transformer
stick paper
sub-millisecond optical pulsar
symphalangus syndactyluss
tanacetum vulgares
ternary vapour-liquid equilibrium
three-phase breaking time
tornatil
trimarans
ultrainfinte point
underpinned pile
vestigial
winspear
wunderbars
zero-valence