音标:[ˈdesəˌmeɪtid] ;
v. 杀死或毁灭(某物)的大部( decimate的过去式和过去分词 ); 相当程度地减少或降低
v kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
v kill in large numbers

词性分布:
形容词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】

Puerto Rican Tainos were nearly wiped out after arrival of the Spanish Lydia Crafts | Austin, Texas 05 April 2010 Cacike Caciba Opil, a Taino chief, hopes Puerto Ricans will regain pride in their native heritage. Related Links: Tainos in Puerto Rico

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(222) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(四)月
学英语单词
AGRIS
archinephridium
asynchronous response mode(arm)
atomic authorization
attitude-changes
balance wheel set screw
Batocera horsfieldi
bushed chain
Carache, I.de
Central Canada
cis-Dichlorodiammineplatinum
coefficient of net correlation
commissioning editor
control characteristic
coverers
cross beats
Cyathula prostrata
dead-eye
deciceronize
deep-sea terrace
Dinintel
discharge jettly
Drents
drivelike
Eimeria stiedae
enamel paraffin(e) wire
Engelthal
Epipachysamine
equitable assignment
expanding inner jaw
eyeballings
fashionistas
fluorine cleanup reactor
for want of
fracture geometry
full-capacity
gimcrackeries
god-speeds
Helixanthera terrestris
hooktop heng
horaries
hygrophorus inocybiformiss
indirect coupled system
individual standard
indometacin
initials
intensity of anomaly
irwells
kebz
krygier
laminated core
lemur
licensing and registration
light coupled device
live bait
luer
men-hour method
military station
mints
multiple eigenvalue
number for matched loading
oleoperitoneography
olivine group
OOA
philosophico-
photicity
photoelectric type ammeter
pre-buy
print resistance
quodlibet
radius at maximum digging height
rail head
receptor chemistry
red spruce
routine report
sandwich board
Scutellaria tienchueanensis
sector sar coordinator
sichuan fritillaria and loquat syrup
simply supported plate
single-step boat
sinking kibble
sjgren
slacks
Solu-Dilar
stack velocity
stokes (st)
surserare
theory of functions of a complex variable
three-dimensional camera
tmre
turn and bank (slip) indicator
UGI gasifier
uk-wide
undervoltage shutdown
universal toolmaker's microscope
unspared
water injector for coal train
wikilinks
Zanaac
zingaro
zymogenic