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.

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  • verb transitive To reduce the population of a region by disease, 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

[Latin dēpopulāri, dēpopulāt-, to lay waste : dē-, de- + populārī, to ravage (from populus, people, throng).]

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de- +‎ populate

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Examples

  • 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.

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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.

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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.

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  • An email that went out recently talks about the government and their plans to "depopulate" the country.

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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

  • "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

  • 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

  • "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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