Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To reduce sharply the population of, as by disease, war, or forcible relocation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Depopulated.
- To deprive of inhabitants, wholly or in part, whether by death or by expulsion; dispeople; reduce the population of.
- To become dispeopled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To become dispeopled.
- transitive verb To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
reduce thepopulation of aregion bydisease ,war ,forced relocation etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb reduce in population
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Below is a letter to livestock producers in Illinois asking them and others to contact the Governor's office to ask to be allowed to be present at a meeting between Homeland Security and the USDA which involves NAIS and "surge capacity" under Homeland Security to attack and seize and destroy - "depopulate" an area of - animals.
Monsanto in Illinois: Homeland Security and USDA plan attacks against animals 2009
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But the bigger problem is the systemic one created by legislators themselves: state law mandates that Citizens Property Insurance "depopulate" policies even to untested, unrated, inexperienced private insurance companies.
The Dogs of Wind Beach Blogger 2005
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But the bigger problem is the systemic one created by legislators themselves: state law mandates that Citizens Property Insurance "depopulate" policies even to untested, unrated, inexperienced private insurance companies.
Archive 2005-10-01 Beach Blogger 2005
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An email that went out recently talks about the government and their plans to "depopulate" the country.
Emaxhealth 2009
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Thus, the whole testing in the elderly. world would actually start to 'depopulate' in The US Bureau of the Census, International 40 years.
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"This administration is trying to figure out how to deal with that stress and so they are doing end-of-life counseling in order to depopulate that particular group of people," Broden said last June.
GOP Candidate Stephen Broden: Violent Revolution Is 'On The Table' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"This administration is trying to figure out how to deal with that stress and so they are doing end-of-life counseling in order to depopulate that particular group of people," Broden said last June.
GOP Candidate Stephen Broden: Violent Revolution Is 'On The Table' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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If we depopulate Alaska we could save ol'grizz and some salmon and all kinds of critters.
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"This administration is trying to figure out how to deal with that stress and so they are doing end-of-life counseling in order to depopulate that particular group of people," Broden said last June.
GOP Candidate Stephen Broden: Violent Revolution Is 'On The Table' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"This administration is trying to figure out how to deal with that stress and so they are doing end-of-life counseling in order to depopulate that particular group of people," Broden said last June.
GOP Candidate Stephen Broden: Violent Revolution Is 'On The Table' The Huffington Post 2010
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