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decimation meaning in Urdu

تباہی و بربادی

/ˌdɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/

decimation in Urdu: تباہی و بربادی. In English, decimation means the killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.

Urdu words for decimation

تباہی و بربادی

English meaning of decimation

  1. noun The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
  2. noun The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
  3. noun A tithe or the act of tithing.
  4. noun The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.

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Questions about decimation in Urdu

What is the meaning of decimation in Urdu?
Decimation in Urdu is تباہی و بربادی.
decimation کا اردو میں کیا مطلب ہے؟
Decimation: تباہی و بربادی.
What does decimation mean in English?
Decimation means the killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.

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Urdu words from Urdu Wiktionary: decimation (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: decimation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Urdu words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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