decimate

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Well, hey, isn't "wipe out" literally incorrect as well?
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From: Jonathan Lighter
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Sent: Jul 21, 2010 8:09 AM

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.

JL

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