"Debt" used to denote a financial obligation. It has been extended to include any obligation, not just those financial.
"Insane" has a very specific legal meaning. Yet it is commonly used to refer to liberals of all stripes.
Words change and expand their meaning by metaphor. To use "decimate" to describe a mass annihilation is perfectly acceptable, and has been for decades.
Good one.
Words change and expand their meaning by metaphor. To use "decimate" to describe a mass annihilation is perfectly acceptable, and has been for decades.
I think "decimate" sounds like it should mean mass annihilation.