The upper echelons of the Brotherhood's leadership have been decimated by the crackdown, as the Egyptian authorities pursue a "decapitation strategy" that aims to disrupt the structure of the organisation.
A struggling city, decimated by the decline of its manufacturing base, had seemingly reinvented itself by – of all things – betting big on culture.
The Fianna Fáil party that captured mainstream nationalism and dominated Irish politics for half a century was decimated in February's election.
But while the heaviest industry has been largely decimated (there are few exceptions, such as Sheffield Forgemasters), the clanking sound of industry, accompanied by tinny pop songs played over the radio, can still be heard coming from the few remaining canal-side factories here.
Whereas chytrid has decimated amphibians across the Americas, researchers have discovered that some species show resilience to chytrid – especially in parts of Asia and Africa – where they have probably lived with the disease for centuries.
Saturday's Football League action has been decimated as the freezing weather conditions tighten their grip on sport.
Creativity and the arts have been decimated in many schools; citizenship abolished, vocational subjects downgraded.
After Scottish Labour was decimated at the election, Murphy insisted he would stay on despite losing his own seat of East Renfrewshire.
Fianna Fáil strategists argue that if the Greens brought down the coalition and precipitated a general election in the winter, the minority party would be decimated in the polls.
Soon these lovely birds will quit the hills and head to the estuary below, where flocks of so many species have been decimated in the time I've known it.
Now it is different – even if the tourist industry, decimated in 2011 during the Arab Spring when huge numbers of migrants paralysed the island, picked up this year due to continued violence in Egypt, the visit of the pope, and – of course – the TripAdvisor fame of spiaggia dei conigli – literally, "rabbits' beach".
