decimate
verb (used with object)
to kill or destroy a great number or proportion of.
is decimating
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present progressiveof decimate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The speed of omicron’s spread in the U.K., where cases are doubling about every two days, is decimating the economy in the busy pre-Christmas period.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
The framework helped keep a lid on German unemployment following the Great Recession, and is being used again there now that coronavirus is decimating the global economy.
From Slate ● May 5, 2020
Patient Zero Matt Smith stars in this 2018 action horror movie set in an apocalyptic future in which a zombie virus is decimating mankind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
“It is decimating the morale of hard-working employees in the school district.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
This mania for dropping orange-peel is decimating London.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 by Various
