decimation vs murder

decimation

noun
  • The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot. 

  • A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling 

  • The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence. 

  • The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population. 

  • A tithe or the act of tithing. 

murder

noun
  • The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification. 

  • The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

  • Something terrible to endure. 

  • A group of crows; the collective noun for crows. 

  • The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. 

verb
  • To botch or mangle. 

  • To devour, ravish. 

  • To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody). 

  • To defeat decisively. 

  • To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

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