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depopulate

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1. depopulate - Adjective

2. depopulate - Verb

Meaning

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

To become dispeopled.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The epidemic depopulated the countryside Source: Internet

Can’t you see them in some dorm room bull session, smoking weed and working through their plans to depopulate the Rodina of anyone darker than a latte? Source: Internet

The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes. Source: Internet

Without immigration, the Continent will depopulate, and the European Dream will wilt rather than flourish. Source: Internet

And how many more virus-exposed inmates have also been granted early releases back into our communities in the state's effort to depopulate its facilities? Source: Internet

President Buhari was accused of supporting Boko Haram to kill Nigerians and his government was pursuing a policy to depopulate Christians. Source: Internet

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