CatMan:

Yes, the word has evolved to mean reduce by a large proportion. Here's what my dictionary's usage note says:

Decimate orig. meant "to kill every tenth person," but its English meaning has been exended to include the destruction of any large proportion of a group, as in Fire, famine, and sword decimated the population. Many, however, still avoid the use of decimate in describing the destruction of a singler person, an entire group, or a specified percentage other than 10%.

Welcome to our fold. I hope you stick around. I mean, what else would a CatMan do?

TEd


TEd