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The original meaning for the term decimate is to kill one man out of every ten.

This comes from ancient Roman times when mutinous squads were decimated. I.e. 1/10 of their soldiers were killed. The method in those times was to get the remaining 9 soldiers of every 10 to kill the chosen soldier.

Nowadays however, the meaning for decimate has changed to mean the destruction of the larger part of a group.

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