The word "decimation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe an event where a large portion of something is destroyed or eliminated, usually in a violent manner. For example: "The Battle of Gettysburg resulted in the decimation of the Confederate Army."
The initial 20 closures were the thin end of the wedge that would lead to the decimation of British coal mining.
This was not the decimation – which literally means one-in-ten – of Irish society, it was far worse than that.
The rehearsals, portentous theme tunes, garish computer graphics, live links and guests had not prepared for such an SNP tsunami and the decimation of the Liberal Democrats.
The mayor and cabinet have not moved, despite being given an alternative budget AND having a nil cost independent consultation report of library improvements from before the whole decimation process began.
The group stage largely met these expectations, featuring a healthy average of 2.83 goals a game, as well as highly improbable results like Germany's pulping of Portugal, the Dutch decimation of Spain and tiny Costa Rica's victories over previous winners Uruguay and Italy.
This is unfortunate when the biggest problem is the decimation of the Gulf's infrastructure.
Some 39m lives not to mention the countless dollars spent fighting the disease, and the countless more forgone by the decimation of many African countries' workforces would have been saved.In this section Back to Iraq Erdogan on top Unseating the first horseman Europe's huddled masses Justice for jocks ReprintsThe story of AIDS argues for tackling such potential plagues early.
Fear of empowered Sunni radicals has pushed many Christians, who are keenly aware of the decimation of neighbouring Iraq's equally large and ancient Christian community, grudgingly to accept the government's characterisation of the rebels as terrorists.
Some 800,000 Rwandans, mostly from the once-dominant Tutsi minority, had been killed by members of the majority Hutu tribe in a matter of weeks: truly a decimation.
Unionisation in Germany, for example, seems to have enhanced middle-class incomes without leading to higher unemployment, says David Leonhardt:Unlike what happened here, German laws and regulators have also prevented the decimation of their labor unions.
The ultra-Orthodox, in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora, bolstered by large families and young marriages, have surged back powerfully from their decimation in the Holocaust.In Israel, though, unlike in the diaspora, most of the men are classified as students for much of their lives.
