(v. t.) To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
(v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) This combined process decreased by 63% the decimal reduction times for the heat treatment when the organism was suspended in buffer and by 43% when suspended in milk.
(2) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
(3) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(4) Fish stocks have been decimated by methods that include cyanide poisoning.
(5) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(6) On average, aided Snellen VA's were better (decimal acuity = 0.98) than the unaided interferometric VA's (decimal acuity = 0.67).
(7) The observation led the authors to put forth the hypothesis of acquired provisional immunity or a temporary decimation of disease vectors.
(8) Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a €6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firm’s business in Europe.
(9) His Third Man studio complex and shop in Nashville is introducing a new generation to the joys of vinyl at a time when the music industry has been decimated by a drop in physical-format sales.
(10) Multiplication of the legionellae was found to occur in a temperature range between 20 and 43 degrees C and inactivation was observed above 50 degrees C. Decimal reduction times decreased with increasing temperatures.
(11) The phenotype cosegregates with a DNA haplotype of the apo B gene in an Idaho pedigree, with a maximum decimal logarithm of the ratio (LOD) score of 7.56 at a recombination rate of zero.
(12) Oxfam has already had to scale back life-saving work in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and sub-Saharan Africa – the poorest region in the world – due to unprecedented aid cuts.” Childfund Australia’s chief executive, Nigel Spence, said the budget had made “even deeper cuts to an already decimated aid budget”.
(13) Many GPs are already working 12-hour days, with much of our time (both clinical and administrative) spent dealing with the consequences of failed political initiatives, failure of appropriate regulation, decimation of local voluntary sector support agencies and NHS bureaucracy.
(14) To counter claims that the policy is decimating social housing stock, the government introduced its one-for-one replacement principle that each social home sold should be replaced with a similar one.
(15) With tourism decimated since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi as president in July, Egyptian authorities hope the new tomb will help bring visitors back to Luxor.
(16) Decimal serial dilutions of eight common bacterial species were prepared, and the detection times were determined by measuring the (14)CO(2) metabolized from the (14)C-labeled glucose substrate.
(17) Being from Yorkshire in the late 90s and early 2000s: we were decimated, I saw how hard it was to keep the show on the road, and it was that voluntary party that kept that show on the road."
(18) Read more Still, though polls will not perfectly predict the US election, state by state and down to the decimal point, they are likely to accurately guess who will win nationally, especially if Clinton has a large enough lead.
(19) Disinfectant activities were compared by statistical analysis of log reduction factors and log count time gradients (decimal reduction times).
(20) As we speak, further education is being silently decimated in the name of "vocational training".
Eradicate
Definition:
(v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
(v. t.) To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.
Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(3) Treatment failed to eradicate S. aureus in 1 patient from each group.
(4) Clinical response was associated with eradication of the abnormal anaerobic flora, despite persistence of G vaginalis in nine (26%).
(5) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(6) Nontumorigenic and nonpromotable cells were moderately affected; the tumorigenic and the promotable cells, however, were markedly affected, resulting in their complete (or nearly complete) eradication.
(7) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
(8) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(9) 85% of the patients recovered or improved within a few days of therapy, with no clinical relapses, and in 81% of the infections the responsible bacteria were completely eradicated.
(10) Bacteriologically, successful eradication of causative organisms was confirmed in all the 4 children who underwent the test.
(11) Cryptosporidium was eradicated from the stools of four patients but two of these patients subsequently relapsed and one patient continued to have diarrhea despite the absence of Cryptosporidium in the stool.
(12) Eradication of poliomyelitis most likely will occur.
(13) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(14) This low complication rate makes surgical correction advisable if urinary tract infection and primary reflux cannot be eradicated by continuous antimicrobial therapy.
(15) In order to achieve guineaworm eradication in 1990s, the Guineaworm Eradication Programme (GWEP) should operate with utmost efficiency; and needs to be concurrently evaluated for timely corrective measures.
(16) Eradication of the pedunculated and narrow-based polyps in stomach was almost totally successful by injection into the base.
(17) Ninety five (97.9%) of 97 strains which were isolated from the patients were eradicated in the urinary specimens by the treatment.
(18) A total of 36 foci of the disease were examined and eradicated.
(19) In conclusion, management of unexpected SDT during OPU include the following therapeutic goals: (1) complete eradication of the tumor to eliminate the remote possibility of malignancy and recurrence; (2) performance of adequate peritoneal lavage to prevent chemical peritonitis; (3) conservation of the maximum amount of functional ovarian tissue; and (4) exclusion of the possibility of dermoid cyst in the contralateral ovary.
(20) Repair of the floppy mitral valve did not eradicate all abnormalities; however, it did significantly improve the chest pain, weakness, dyspnea, and arrhythmias in all six patients.