Sekirov Dictionary

depopulate

UK /diːˈpɒpjəleɪt/US /diˈpɑpjəleɪt/

verb 3
adjective 2
forms 3

verb3

•
To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Where is this viper / That would depopulate the city and / Be every man himself? — 1608
•
To become depopulated, to lose its population.
- […] the country […] has been rapidly depopulating, and utterly draining of its vital resources, till the unhappy population have sunk to the lowest depth of misery. — 1849
To remove the components from a circuit board.

adjective2

•
(no longer used) Depopulated.
- And so in that realme were continually two kynges, vntil the kynge of Mede had depopulate the country, and brought the people in captiuite to the citie of Babylon: […] — 1531
•
(no longer used) Barren, devoid of inhabitants; utterly destroyed, devastated.
- A world it was to see […] his daily peregrinacion in the desert, felles and craggy mountains of that bareine vnfertile and depopulate countrey. — 1548

forms

depopulated · depopulating · depopulates

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