English Dictionary

decimate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɛ.sɪ.meɪt/

動詞

古語 広義 廃用 稀用 禁用

(archaic) To kill one-tenth of a group, (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.

日本語の意味

（古典的な意味）集団の10分の1にあたる者を殺害する行為、特にローマ軍において、抽選により選ばれた者を生き残った兵士が殺す軍罰として実施されたもの

The tribune threatened to decimate the cohort if they continued their mutiny, a punishment that would see one in ten chosen by lot and killed by their comrades.

軍の長官は反乱を続ければ軍団の十分の一を処刑すると脅した。これはくじで十人に一人が選ばれ、生き残った仲間の兵士によって処刑されるという処罰だった。

意味（1）

(archaic) To kill one-tenth of a group, (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.

God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination.

意味（2）

To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.

...there will be eight hundred and ten laborers producing as nine hundred, while, to accomplish their purpose, they would have to produce as one thousand... Here, then, we have a society which is continually decimating itself...

意味（3）

(loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.

[England] had decimated itself for a question which involved no principle, and led to no result.

意味（4）

(obsolete) To exact a tithe or other 10% tax

You forge theſe things prettily; but I have heard you are as poor as a decimated Cavalier [referring to Cromwell's ten per cent. income-tax on Cavaliers], and had not one foot of land in all the vvorld.

意味（5）

(obsolete, rare) To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.

[I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […] An adjective use.

意味（6）

(obsolete) To decimalize: to divide into tenths, hundredths, etc.

意味（7）

(proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything.

In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated, and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction.

意味（8）

(computer graphics) To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality.

A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full n-dimensional space.

decimates （ present singular third-person ）

decimating （ participle present ）

decimated （ participle past ）

decimated （ past ）