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war1025
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Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their l...
Decimate means you kill 1 out of every 10. It's probable that we decimated the virus and more. It's just that doesn't really make a difference.
brnt
on July 18, 2020
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Decimate means
leaving
1 out of 10 alive. A 90% reduction.
edflsafoiewq
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> Decimation was a form of Roman military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort. ... The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth".
MagnumOpus
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No it doesn’t. Look it up.
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