deu: dezimieren

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Meaning
means	(verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" exterminate, kill off
means	(verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies decimate
means	(verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" extinguish, eradicate, eliminate, wipe out, carry off, annihilate, decimate
means	(verb) remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" wipe out, erase
means	(verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" eradicate, uproot, root out, extirpate, exterminate