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Перевод: decimate

[глагол]
казнить каждого десятого; опустошать; истреблять; уничтожать; косить

Тезаурус:

1. What would be easier than withdrawing their overseas investments, something that would decimate our markets?
2. This is not to suggest that you dash out and decimate your garden.
3. The small private aerodrome at Castle Mill, near Bedford, was threatened with closure as a badly planned trunk road would decimate it.
4. Only a quarter tolerated the common misapprehension whereby to decimate has ceased to mean, as in the Roman legions, to slaughter one in 10.
5. The ability of Robin Smith and Alec Stewart to plunder second-rate fast bowling and the brilliance of Mike Gatting and Gooch against spin should decimate the Indian attack.
6. They can decimate the population of these baby amphibians in a pond system.
7. Rhys considers it unwise to attempt radically to alter taxes on large cars, as proposed by Labour: "You can't just decimate the luxury car trade," he says, "Most big cars may well come from Germany but you have to consider how it would affect the dealer network."
8. The corn earworm moth, whose hungry larvae can decimate an otherwise healthy crop, has antennae tuned to these as well as other specific frequencies, with the result that when the female flies about on a clear moonlit night, she "sees" - through her antennae - the whole field lit up, like an array of a myriad natural light bulbs.
9. THE participation of Cool Ground threatens to decimate the field for Saturday's 30,000 SGB Chase at Ascot.
10. This period has seen capitalism shake out labour in such a way as to decimate the working class, now much smaller, living in decaying urban areas, with little chance of upward mobility, and yet create the conditions for a relatively secure middle class.
11. Almost Newman's first act at the BBC was to decimate the existing Script Department under Donald Wilson.
12. Its rearguard battle to discourage solecisms such as the use of "aggravate" to mean "irritate" and "decimate" to mean "slaughter most of" is to be abandoned.
13. Cuts of that level would decimate the existing service and make it almost impossible for underdeveloped areas of the service such as facilities for children with physical disabilities, imaginative respite, and family-based care schemes and improved under-fives facilities to be developed.