decimate

From LSJ

οἵτινες πόλιν μίαν λαβόντες εὐρυπρωκτότεροι πολύ τῆς πόλεος ἀπεχώρησαν ἧς εἷλον τότεafter taking a single city they returned home, with arses much wider than the city they captured

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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verb transitive

Use kill, destroy.