Evidence for DECIMATE ('one in ten')

[LanDi Liu]

16,900 google hits for "completely decimated".  Some of them are describing
the *bad usage* of meaning "completely destroy", but it looks like most of
them are just nice examples of the current "destroy" meaning.

Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China

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