单词 | populate |
释义 | populate (once / 67 pages) v WORD FAMILY populate: depopulate, overpopulate, populated, populates, populating, population+/depopulate: depopulated, depopulates, depopulating, depopulation/depopulation: depopulations/overpopulate: overpopulated, overpopulating, overpopulation/overpopulation: overpopulations/populated: underpopulated, unpopulated/population: populations, subpopulation/subpopulation: subpopulations USAGE EXAMPLESThese days it’s populated mainly by seagulls, boarded-up barracks, some art studios and old warehouses, but officials hope the museum triggers its transformation. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Small-class instruction in more densely populated areas is difficult to achieve without a lot of money for more staff or classroom space. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) They bring different experiences and perspectives to a part-time legislature that’s heavily populated with lawyers. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of deer are populating the woods Syn|Hypo|Hyper dwell, inhabit, live tenant occupy as a tenant neighbor, neighbourlive or be located as a neighbor lodge in, occupy, residelive (in a certain place) domicile, domiciliate, reside, shackmake one's home in a particular place or community peoplefurnish with people overpopulatecause to have too great a population cohabit, live together, shack upshare living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple lodgebe a lodger; stay temporarily bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tentlive in or as if in a tent nestinhabit a nest, usually after building board, roomlive and take one's meals at or in move inoccupy a place rusticatelive in the country and lead a rustic life stay atreside temporarily squatoccupy (a dwelling) illegally sleep over, stay overstay overnight crashoccupy, usually uninvited miscegenatemarry or cohabit with a person of another race be occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere 2v fill with inhabitants populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting Hypo|Hyper people fill with people fill, fill up, make full make full, also in a metaphorical sense |
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