Depopulate

[diː'pɒpjʊleɪt] or [,di'pɑpjulet]

Definition

(verb.) reduce in population; 'The epidemic depopulated the countryside'.

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Definition

(v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.

(v. i.) To become dispeopled.

Typist: Shelby

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Dispeople, unpeople, deprive of inhabitants.

Edited by Charlene

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Waste, dispeople, desert, {[coandon]?}, unpeople

ANT:Occupy, tenant, colonize, inhabit, settle, replenish, stock, fill

Editor: Nettie

Definition

v.t. to deprive of population to dispeople.—v.i. to become dispeopled.—adj. depopulated.—ns. Depopulā′tion act of depopulating: havoc: destruction; Depop′ulator.

Edited by Bonita