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Frontline report: Ukraine’s elite brigade decimates half Russian battalion in single day (euromaidanpress.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

Decimates half? So they destroyed 5%?

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The word 'decimates' means to eliminate 10%. So if used correctly, it means that 30 to 40 Russians were killed. The word is hardly ever used correctly.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That may have been the original definition, but words evolve. One of the definitions from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘to cause great destruction or harm to’. So it is used correctly by modern definitions.

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