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It can mean both, in this context though decimate would have only worked if the last one wasn't also killed. Decimate being 1/10 is an older definition of the term that was specifically when 1/10 of a group were eliminated as a punishment. It can also mean to kill or remove a large percentage of something. However, annihilate does make more sense in this context, since they were all killed.No. The clergy in the Capital were NOT decimated. They were annihilated. If they were merely DECImated, %90 of them would still be alive. Kinda as if DECImated means 1/TENTH of something is killed or destroyed. Hence, the prefix DECI.