I've seen 'massacre' used casually: the team were massacred by their opponents (=they lost), the guests massacred the buffet. 'Decimate, in my idiom, does not involve '10%' - but it always has a sharp negative undertone, unlike 'reduce'. (You reduce seedlings, you decimate weeds).
For an icon, may I reccommend borrowing the shorter phrase of 'Oh E.Bear No'? That should have the right connotations.
(And, yeah. The correct response to 'you're standing on my foot' has _always_ been 'I'm sorry.' I admit that 'we shouldn't give so much power to bruises' is a new one for me.)
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'Decimate, in my idiom, does not involve '10%' - but it always has a sharp negative undertone, unlike 'reduce'. (You reduce seedlings, you decimate weeds).
For an icon, may I reccommend borrowing the shorter phrase of 'Oh E.Bear No'? That should have the right connotations.
(And, yeah. The correct response to 'you're standing on my foot' has _always_ been 'I'm sorry.' I admit that 'we shouldn't give so much power to bruises' is a new one for me.)