decimate

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/21/2010 09:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Now it's moved all the way to "annihilate; wipe out":
>
>2008 Herman J. Viola _Warriors in Uniform_ (Washington, D.C.: National
>Geographic) 52: The decimation at the Little Big Horn could have been
>averted had Custer heeded the advice of his Crow scouts.

This seems particularly egregious when "annihilation" is readily
available, and correct.

Joel

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