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Decimalize
- verb - change from fractions to decimals; "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000"
- change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975"
Decimating
- verb - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
- kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
Decimation
- noun - destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
Decimeters
- noun - a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter
Decimetres
- noun - a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter
Deciphered
- verb - convert code into ordinary language
- converted from cryptic to intelligible language
- read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
Decipherer
- noun - a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text
- the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
Decipiency
- - State of being deceived; hallucination.
Decisively
- adverb - in an indisputable degree; "the Fisher Act of 1918 decisively raised their status and pay"
- with finality; conclusively; "the voted settled the argument decisively"
- with firmness; "`I will come along,' she said decisively"
Decivilize
- - To reduce from civilization to a savage state.