Need another word that means the same as “decimate”? Find 10 synonyms and 30 related words for “decimate” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Decimate” are: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out, get rid of, do away with, remove, suppress
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “decimate” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| annihilate | Defeat utterly. A fraction of the mass of atomic nuclei is annihilated. |
| carry off | Have a certain range. |
| do away with | Carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions. |
| eliminate | Eliminate from the body. Security agents have started a campaign to eliminate some of the government s opponents. |
| eradicate | Destroy completely; put an end to. This disease has been eradicated from the world. |
| extinguish | Extinguish by crushing. Hope is extinguished little by little. |
| get rid of | Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot. |
| remove | Remove from a position or an office. A man is removed to the tribal district of his forbears. |
| suppress | Prevent or inhibit (a process or reaction. Use of the drug suppressed the immune response. |
| wipe out | Rub with a circular motion. |
| ablation | Surgical removal of a body part or tissue. |
| abolish | Do away with. The tax was abolished in 1977. |
| annihilate | Kill in large numbers. A simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all. |
| cull | An inferior or surplus livestock animal selected for culling. He sees culling deer as a necessity. |
| delete | Remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it. Any program in memory will be deleted before the new one is loaded. |
| demolish | Destroy completely. The home team demolished the visitors. |
| demolition | An overwhelming defeat. Ireland s demolition of England. |
| destroy | Destroy completely damage irreparably. He has been determined to destroy her. |
| destruction | An event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something. Gambling was his destruction. |
| efface | Make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous. To efface oneself is not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake. |
| eliminate | Eliminate from the body. Security agents have started a campaign to eliminate some of the government s opponents. |
| eradicate | Destroy completely, as if down to the roots. This disease has been eradicated from the world. |
| erasable | Capable of being effaced. A signal too loud to be erasable in a single pass through the erase head. |
| erase | Remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or medium); delete (data) from a computer’s memory. The magic of the landscape erased all else from her mind. |
| eraser | A piece of soft rubber or plastic used to rub out something written. |
| excision | The action of excising something. The excision of the carcinoma. |
| exterminate | Destroy completely, as if down to the roots. They use poison to exterminate moles. |
| extirpate | Pull up by or as if by the roots. Timber wolves were extirpated from New England more than a century ago. |
| extirpation | The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence. |
| null | Combine a signal with another in order to create a null cancel out. Null and void. |
| nullify | Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of. Judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions. |
| obliterate | Make invisible or indistinct; conceal or cover. The memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind. |
| obviate | Do away with. A parachute can be used to obviate disaster. |
| raze | Completely destroy (a building, town, or other settlement. Villages were razed to the ground. |
| remove | Remove from a position or an office. Exchange controls have finally been removed. |
| ruthlessly | In a ruthless manner. They fell prey to money lenders who ruthlessly exploited them. |
| squander | Spend extravagantly. 100m of taxpayers money has been squandered on administering the tax. |
| stump | Remove tree stumps from. There is no chance that he will be well enough to stump the country. |
| uproot | Move (someone) from their home or a familiar location. A revolution is necessary to uproot the social order. |
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