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  • this only means to reduce by a tenth.

    Maybe if we're going to spend some time in pendants corner you should look at third meaning in the mirriam Websters definitions. Whilst it's true the origin is in the Latin for reduce by a tenth, meaning of words evolve.

    From your same link

    Decimate strayed from its "tenth" meaning and nowadays refers to the act of destroying or hurting something in great numbers.

  • the act of destroying or hurting something in great numbers.

    10 is a great number, dunno what you're on about

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