{"id":32415,"date":"2021-03-17T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32415"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:09:44","slug":"word-of-the-day-662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/17\/word-of-the-day-662\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decimated<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. : to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
    \ndecimate<\/em> a regiment<\/li>\n
  2. : to exact a tax of 10 percent from
    \npoor as a decimated<\/em> Cavalier
    \n\u2014 John Dryden<\/li>\n
  3. a: to reduce drastically especially in number
    \ncholera decimated<\/em> the population
    \nKamieniecki’s return comes at a crucial time for a pitching staff that has been decimated<\/em> by injuries.
    \n\u2014 Jason Diamos
    \nb: to cause great destruction or harm to
    \nfirebombs decimated<\/em> the city
    \nan industry decimated<\/em> by recession [Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Noted in “Christian Tourist Attractions Are Struggling (Even Outside the Pandemic)<\/em><\/a>,” Hemant Mehta, Friendly Atheist<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

    In fact, you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find an attraction that\u2019s doing well (even outside the pandemic). Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum may be the most successful \u2014 mostly because of all the money that\u2019s been poured into them \u2014 but as we\u2019ve documented on this site, Ark Encounter\u2019s publicly available attendance numbers aren\u2019t terrific\u2026 and that\u2019s before the pandemic decimated the place. My favorite line in the piece is the one where Answers in Genesis says the publicly reported attendance numbers on my website don\u2019t tell the full story, but given the chance to prove me wrong, they \u201cdeclined to provide actual attendance figures.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    My Arts Editor hates, I think, definition #3. It’s so less precise than 1 or 2. And I’ve been hearing various forms of decimate<\/em> a lot lately, much in line with definition #3. It’s a bit grating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Decimated: : to select by lot and kill every tenth man of decimate a regiment : to exact a tax of 10 percent from poor as a decimated Cavalier \u2014 John Dryden a: to reduce drastically especially in number cholera decimated the population Kamieniecki’s return comes at a crucial time \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32420,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415\/revisions\/32420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}