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Discover LudwigThe phrase "became decimated" is grammatically correct in written English.
It means that something or someone has been greatly reduced or destroyed, usually by a tenth or in a significant way. Example: The village's population became decimated after a devastating flood swept through the area.
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In some countries, as Cowal explained, "military forces became decimated with HIV and AIDS," bringing into question their military capabilities.
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1991-1995: General Idea, the trio of artists whose queer art has been internationally exhibited since the early 1970s, would become decimated by the HIV virus, with two of its members, Jorge Zontel and Felix Partz, dying only months apart from each other in 1995.
While neo-paganism lacks a singular definition, many followers have come to define it as a primitive, matriarchal religion that flourished in Western Europe, centered on the worship of a "Mother Goddess", and became largely decimated by Christianity.
Like Japan's, American banks have become so decimated by losses in real estate that they are either unable or unwilling to resume normal lending.
Then, an MDFT filter bank becomes a critically decimated -channel filter bank with real filter coefficients.
"Decimated houses, decimated health care, decimated schools.
Forests will be decimated as trees become less resilient to drought and higher temperatures, new data suggest.
A NEW law to revive the nation's troubled public housing had a simple goal when it was first proposed several years go: Allow more working poor families into projects that had become dominated -- some would say decimated -- by very poor welfare families.
In the artist's native Australia, rabbits are pests introduced by white colonialists and whose population soon became entirely out of control, decimating many native plant species.
The archaeological record suggests that elk became very abundant after European diseases decimated Native American populations in the 16th century, thus greatly reducing human predation.
This is because they see a lot of traffic and are areas that may easily get overgrazed or the vegetation gets decimated to the point where the lanes become dust/mud bowls from excessive hoof traffic.
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