- Destroy a significant proportion of - To take the tenth part of; to tithe. - To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man
of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. - To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an
army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
- Colleague - Group at the same level or age - Group of soldiers - Roman military unit - A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth
part of a legion. - Any band or body of warriors. - A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive
than a class.