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populate

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1. populate - Adjective

2. populate - Verb

Meaning

Populous.

To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

To propagate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. John Steinbeck

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. Vivienne Westwood

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. Carl Jung

Did God truly build and populate a small planet for His own purposes; perhaps merely to relieve His boredom? Michael Moorcock

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things. Neil Patrick Harris

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special. Morris Dees

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