And then there's "decimate". Classically, it's to reduce by one tenth. Archived Message
Posted by Paul in Warrensburg on November 16, 2021, 3:41 pm, in reply to "Alot is not a word, it is supposed to be 2 words "a lot""
It's used too often now to mean utterly destroy.
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