pezus said:
If you want to use it literally. Not many do, though. |
You have been actually correct, though. Decimation means to "kill one in every ten of". It's a term used to refer to a punishment that existed in the Roman times. The Romans used to kill every tenth person in a traitorous legion. Since then, the term was adopted to be used for "killing a large proportion of a group". See more
This, I stole from grandpa...It's called soap.