Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To depopulate; dispeople.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To depopulate.
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- verb transitive To
depopulate .
Etymologies
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de- + people
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Examples
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"We cannot depeople France to people Canada," wrote the King; but from his royal revenue he set aside money yearly to send men to Canada as soldiers, women as wives.
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Nay, it needs no such stupendous cataclysm to depeople this uneasy orb.
A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce 1878
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