[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to kill or destroy a great number or proportion of:The population was decimated by a plague.", "to greatly reduce in number or amount:From 1975-1981, our country was not driving the space exploration agenda, and our aerospace workforce was decimated.", "to cause to suffer great loss or harm:The constant eruptions that spewed forth decimated the forest and turned it to ash.", "to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.", "Obsolete.to take a tenth of or from."]}]