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Decimated

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It's good news that only one tenth of Iran is to be destroyed. Maybe the war is calming down.


@AlanTal said
It's good news that only one tenth of Iran is to be destroyed. Maybe the war is calming down.
Only someone familiar with Roman history would know that to "decimate" is to remove one from ten. In the vernacular, it has come to mean to destroy a large part of something.


@moonbus
The clue is in the word, of course, and traditional meanings still hold for many people.


This is an easy lay-up.

I was wondering when someone was gonna jump on this.

Too easy.