depeoplev.
/dɪˈpiːp(ə)l/ archaic.
transitive. To deprive of people, destroy the people of, depopulate.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)]
to bathe in bloodc1300
murderc1325
to make larder ofa1330
spend1481
to lick upa1500
slaught1535
butcher1562
wipe1577
slaughter1586
massacre1588
dispeople1596
shamble1601
depeople?1611
mow1615
internecate1623
dislaughter1661
mop1899
pogrom1915
decimate1944
overkill1946
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xix. 146 Achilles in first fight depeopling enemies.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) ix. 75 I depeopled it, Slew all the men, and did their wives remit.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xi. xi. 222 The town, awed and depeopled, submitted to flame and to sword.
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