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decimate has 6 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
kill in large numbers
“the plague wiped out an entire population”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for decimate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.