🔥decimate (décimé)

verb
/ˈdɛsɪmeɪt/
détruire (detruire)

Signification

To destroy or kill a large proportion of something.
Traduction de la signification
Détruire ou tuer une grande proportion de quelque chose.
Detruire ou tuer une grande proportion de quelque chose.

Phrases d'exemple

The wildfire decimated the forest.

L'incendie a ravagé la forêt.
L'incendie a ravagé la forêt.

Synonymes

destroy, devastate, annihilate, ruin, wipe out

Antonymes

preserve, protect, save

Collocations

decimate population, decimate forest, decimate resources, decimate economy

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