no..
If the yankees "decimated" Boston, they won in convincing fashion.
25% is, in any real world context, material.
We went through the math, even if you never managed to understand it.
We struggled to find ANY reductions of 10% under Clinton.
The ONLY evidence on which you rely is Cheney's self immolating assertion.
From Mirriam Webster
Definition of variant (Entry 1 of 2)
Debunked.
You can stop reyapping it.The yankees decimated boston. Clinton decimated the military. see how it works?
You debunked Websters? LMAO
dec·i·mate
/ˈdesəˌmāt/
verb
- 1.
kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.
"the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness"
- 2.
HISTORICAL
kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.
"the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"
As I said, you are going with the HISTORICAL definition, not the common usage of the day.