repopulatev.
/ˌriːˈpɒpjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /riˈpɑpjəˌleɪt/ transitive. To populate again; to supply with new inhabitants; to form a new population in (an area).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with inhabitants again
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1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 9 This Temiragio returned to the Citie, and then began for to repopulate it [It. fece ripopular la cittade].
1668 L. Willan Perfect States-man xliii. 168 The Civil Jurisdiction sometime is enforced to invite Recourse of Forreigners, to re-edifie and re-populate such Scituations, with the Advantage of some new Immunities, peculiar to their Habitations.
1700 P. Danet Compl. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. at Græci Eusebius affirms, that Hellen the Son of Deucalion, repopulated this Country after the Deluge, that happened in the time of Moses.
1859 S. R. Hole Little Tour Ireland vii. 67 Great efforts are being made to repopulate the country.
1881 R. N. Boyd Chili 116 The town was..rebuilt and repopulated by emigrants from the province of Biscay.
1934 Discovery Apr. 112/2 The banding records indicate that..those that migrate through and winter in the east would be very slow to re-populate the devastated areas in the west.
1951 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 7 Dec. 14/5 Offshore abalones move into the shallows each year to repopulate the areas thinned out by the sports divers.
2004 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 28 Oct. 8 Queen Zombina from Planet X arrives with her crew of space vixens, looking for earthmen to repopulate their planet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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