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Depopulation

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of depopulating or condition of being depopulated; the destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of depopulating, or the state of being depopulated; reduction of population; destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.

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

n. the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)

Word Usage

"The formal announcement, expected from the government in coming days, would be the first official recognition that the March accident could force the long-term depopulation of communities near the plant, an eventuality that scientists and some officials have been warning about for months."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

environmental condition

Rhyme

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