单词 | repopulating |
释义 | repopulatingn. = repopulation n. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [noun] > again repeopling1608 repopulating1611 repopulation1666 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Repeuplement, a repeopling, repopulating. 1887 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 15 May This enactment will result in the repopulating of the hunting grounds from which this game has so nearly disappeared. 1894 E. F. Henderson Hist. Germany in Middle Ages i. 14 It is a grim spectacle, this final struggle of western Rome, this repopulating of half a continent. 1926 Jrnl. Land & Public Utility Econ. 2 464/1 It is aimed..towards the repopulating of the rural areas. 1955 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 24 44 Both passive and active movements occur,..and their relative importance in the repopulating of a shore depends primarily on the physical nature of the beach substratum. 2002 J. J. TePaske in C. Daniels & M. V. Kennedy Negotiated Empires 41 Click develops the theme that the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula in its early phases was more a repopulating of vacant land than a military conquest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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