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Depopulate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To reduce sharply the population of, as by disease, war, or forcible relocation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.

verb-intransitive. To become dispeopled.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To deprive of inhabitants, wholly or in part, whether by death or by expulsion; dispeople; reduce the population of.

To become dispeopled.

Depopulated.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. reduce in population

Word Usage

"But the bigger problem is the systemic one created by legislators themselves: state law mandates that Citizens Property Insurance "depopulate" policies even to untested, unrated, inexperienced private insurance companies."

Antonym

people

Verb Form

depopulated depopulates depopulating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

shrink reduce

Cross Reference

depeople

Form

depopulated depopulating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

dispeople unpeople depeople disman desolate

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

copulate populate