<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to kill or destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.</li><li>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.</li><li>to cause to suffer great loss or harm: The constant eruptions that spewed forth decimated the forest and turned it to ash.</li><li>to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.</li><li>Obsolete: to take a tenth of or from.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>