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[ verb dee-pop-yuh-leyt; adjective dee-pop-yuh-lit, -leyt ] / verb diˈpɒp yəˌleɪt; adjective diˈpɒp yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR depopulate ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object), de·pop·u·lat·ed, de·pop·u·lat·ing.to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion. Origin of depopulate1525–35; <Latin dēpopulātus devastated (past participle of dēpopulārī), equivalent to dē-de- + populātus;see populate OTHER WORDS FROM depopulatede·pop·u·la·tion, nounde·pop·u·la·tive, adjectivede·pop·u·la·tor, nounWords nearby depopulatedepolymerase, depolymerize, depone, deponent, Depo-Provera, depopulate, deport, deportation, deportee, deportment, deposal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for depopulateFor full access to a genuine voice, Hemingway argues that a writer must depopulate his or her world, physically or metaphysically. Can We Live Together, Roland Barthes?|Austen Rosenfeld|December 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST Indeed, in the early 1770s, the movement of people westward was so large that it threatened to depopulate Britain. “The Barbarous Years”: What 17th-Century America Really Looked Like|R.B. Bernstein|November 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST It has converted the valley into a desert, and will depopulate it. Calavar|Robert Montgomery Bird To confine man absolutely either to animal or vegetable food would be to depopulate a large part of the earth. Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series|Jacob Abbott
The principle of entailing landed estates tends to impoverish the people, drive them to emigration, and so depopulate the country. The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland:|Thomas W. Silloway All other measures will prove abortive, and you will depopulate the country. Egmont|Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe So strong was now the tide of emigration, that it threatened to depopulate some of the fairest provinces of the country. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain.|William H. Prescott
British Dictionary definitions for depopulate
verbto be or cause to be reduced in population Derived forms of depopulatedepopulation, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to depopulatemurder, annihilate, exterminate, slay, butcher, decimate, slaughter, denude, devastate, pillage, ruin, sack, despoil, plunder, devour, waste, desecrate, maraud, vandalize, desolate |