décimer
French, verb/de.si.me/
décimer is spelled D-É-C-I-M-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 56,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décimer is a French verb meaning “to decimate (reduce by one tenth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Supprimer un dixième de quelque chose, pratiquer la décimation”.
What does décimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to decimate (reduce by one tenth)
- 2
to decimate (massacre, almost wipe out)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Supprimer un dixième de quelque chose, pratiquer la décimation. 2. Faire disparaître une grande partie d'un ensemble d'individus (et non pas les 10 % du sens original), massacrer, tuer. 3. Supprimer en grand nombre. 4. Modifier des échantillons pour n’en garder que l’essentiel.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of décimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- décimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- décimé participle past
- décime first-person indicative present
- décimes indicative present second-person
- décimons first-person indicative plural
- décimez indicative plural present
- déciment indicative plural present
- décimais first-person imperfect indicative
- décimait imperfect indicative singular
- décimions first-person imperfect indicative
- décimiez imperfect indicative plural
- décimaient imperfect indicative plural
- décimai first-person historic indicative
- décimas historic indicative past
- décima historic indicative past
- décimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décimer?
- /de.si.me/
- \de.si.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to décimer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décimer in French?
décimer appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).