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Yes. The word decimate is a Scrabble US word. The word decimate is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word decimate is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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8-letter words (3 found)

DECIMATE,EMICATED,MEDICATE,

7-letter words (3 found)

EMICATE,MEDIATE,MICATED,

6-letter words (12 found)

ACMITE,DACITE,DECEIT,DECIME,EMETIC,IDEATE,ITEMED,MEATED,MEDIAE,METICA,MICATE,TEAMED,

5-letter words (29 found)

ACTED,ADEEM,ADMIT,AIMED,AMICE,AMIDE,CADEE,CADET,CADIE,CITED,DEICE,DEMIC,DEMIT,DIACT,DICTA,EDEMA,EDICT,MACED,MATED,MEDIA,MEDIC,METED,METIC,TAMED,TEADE,TEAED,TEMED,TICED,TIMED,

4-letter words (66 found)

ACED,ACID,ACME,ADIT,AIDE,AMID,AMIE,CADE,CADI,CAID,CAME,CAMI,CATE,CEDE,CEDI,CETE,CIDE,CITE,DACE,DAME,DATE,DEEM,DEET,DEME,DICE,DICT,DIET,DIME,DITA,DITE,ECAD,EDIT,EIDE,EMIC,EMIT,ETIC,ICED,IDEA,IDEE,IDEM,ITEM,MACE,MADE,MAID,MATE,MEAD,MEAT,MEED,MEET,META,METE,MICA,MICE,MITE,TACE,TAED,TAME,TEAD,TEAM,TEED,TEEM,TEME,TICE,TIDE,TIED,TIME,

3-letter words (47 found)

ACE,ACT,AID,AIM,AIT,AME,AMI,ATE,CAD,CAM,CAT,CEE,CID,CIT,DAE,DAM,DEE,DEI,DIE,DIM,DIT,EAT,EME,ETA,ICE,IDE,ITA,MAC,MAD,MAE,MAT,MED,MEE,MET,MIC,MID,TAD,TAE,TAI,TAM,TEA,TEC,TED,TEE,TIC,TID,TIE,

2-letter words (21 found)

AD,AE,AI,AM,AT,DA,DE,DI,EA,ED,EE,EM,ET,ID,IT,MA,ME,MI,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 182 words from decimate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of decimate

decimate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin decimāre (“to take or offer a tenth part”), from decimus (“tenth”). As a noun, via Latin decimatus (“tithing area; tithing rights”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɛsɪmeɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɛsəmeɪt/

Verb

decimate (third-person singular simple present decimates, present participle decimating, simple past and past participle decimated)

  1. (archaic) To kill one-tenth of (a group), (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
    Synonym: tithe
    • c. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Vol. I:
      God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination.
  2. To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).
  3. (loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
    • 1996, Star Trek: Voyager (TV series), Flashback (episode)
      Um, some sort of power overload. I'm afraid it decimated your breakfast.
  4. (obsolete) To exact a tithe or other 10% tax.
  5. (obsolete, rare) To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.
  6. (obsolete) To divide into tenths; to decimalize.
  7. (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
  8. (computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality.
    • 1999, Mihalisin & al., "Visualizing Multivariate Functions, Data and Distributions" in Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, page 122:
      A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full n-dimensional space.

Usage notes

Senses of decimate other than "to reduce by one in ten" are occasionally proscribed but "to devastate" has now become a more common usage. The sense "to reduce to one in ten" is etymologically unsound and omitted by the Oxford English Dictionary but increasingly common.

Coordinate terms

  • (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part): tertiate (⅓), quintate (⅕), sextate (⅙), septimate (⅐), duodecimate (¹⁄₁₂), centesimate (¹⁄₁₀₀)

Derived terms

  • decimater, decimator
  • decimating
  • decimation

Related terms

  • quintate
  • centimate

Translations

Noun

decimate (plural decimates)

  1. (obsolete) A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
  2. (obsolete) A tenth of something.
  3. (obsolete) A set of ten items.

References

  • “decimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “decimate”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes II (D–Hoon), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • edematic, medicate

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

decimate

  1. inflection of decimare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

decimate f pl

  1. feminine plural of decimato

Anagrams

  • medicate

Latin

Verb

decimāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of decimō

Source: wiktionary.org