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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Maybe his Beyer might be decimated.
If you pretended to not know what 'crossed the rubicon' meant - how can you be such a stickler with decimated.
Decimated sounds violent. It's a good sounding word in my book.
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For what it's worth, the obsolete definition of decimated is to reduce by 10%. The first result when you look is: to destroy a great number or proportion of.
NT