decimates

"say what you will about the rest of the Elfman canon, but his Batman score decimates Zimmer's with a sneeze." decimates is the word.

Interview: Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard on The Dark Knight's Score « FirstShowing.net 2008

It would be nice if Carlin decimates her, but I suspect he’s not as quick as he used to be (sorry George), and knowing how Coulter works I doubt Carlin will get a word in edgewise (assuming Leno has them on at the same time ... which I doubt).

Think Progress » NBC To Feature Coulter On Tonight Show 2006

To hear it from liberal groups, you'd think the proposed spending limits would cut the federal government down to that of a small state, even as it "decimates" the middle class and forces seniors to eat dog food.

A grand budget compromise on deficit reduction is just what U.S. needs Steven Pearlstein 2010

In my movie I identified that this company comes into a place that's sustainable and pristine and for the quick buck, you know, come hell or high water, just kind of decimates it, and with no concern for its residents or the long-term.

Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: Rosario Dawson Takes Home EMA's Futures Award 2008

March 1994After the Clean Hands anti-corruption investigation decimates Italy's political parties, and only three months after he forms his Forza Italia party, media magnate Berlusconi wins parliamentary election.

Silvio Berlusconi: the rise and fall 2011

People do, after all, inexplicably lose their jobs; careers do get gently nudged onto the rocks; professional marginalization does occur; first-rate organizational, social and political initiatives do encounter untenable resistance, if they are not obstructed altogether; minority oppression does occur; individual whim decimates cultures and destroys countries.

Dr. Robert Aziz: Why Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Dr. Robert Aziz 2011

The concoction is then put in an empty soft drink bottle, lit and thrown onto reefs where it decimates coral, killing all the fish within its blast radius.

James Morgan: Fishing with Dynamite in the Coral Triangle (PHOTOS) James Morgan 2011

People do, after all, inexplicably lose their jobs; careers do get gently nudged onto the rocks; professional marginalization does occur; first-rate organizational, social and political initiatives do encounter untenable resistance, if they are not obstructed altogether; minority oppression does occur; individual whim decimates cultures and destroys countries.

Dr. Robert Aziz: Why Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Dr. Robert Aziz 2011

The concoction is then put in an empty soft drink bottle, lit and thrown onto reefs where it decimates coral, killing all the fish within its blast radius.

James Morgan: Fishing with Dynamite in the Coral Triangle (PHOTOS) James Morgan 2011

Today a different Governor Cuomo champions a budget that decimates education in the state, squeezes the poorest and weakest New Yorkers, and gives tax breaks to the rich.

Alan Singer: If I Could Ask Andrew Cuomo a Question Alan Singer 2011