Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To depopulate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To depopulate; empty of inhabitants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
empty ofpeople orinhabitants .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely dispeople and destroy.
The Essays 2007
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The port is made by an inlet of the sea, deep and narrow, where a ship lay waiting to dispeople
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If your Majesty were tormented night and day by fever, gout, rheumatism, and stone, and asthma, etc., and you found these diseases had secretly entered into a conspiracy to abandon you, should you think it necessary to lay an embargo on the port by which they meant to dispeople your unquiet kingdom of man?
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Their chiefs, Messapus, and Ufens, and Mezentius, scorner of the gods, begin to enrol forces on all sides, and dispeople the wide fields of husbandmen.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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It was not fit to dispeople a country; nor prudent to grieve the King's best friends, who mostly had some concern in those unfortunate men; or expedient to give too just grounds of clamour to the disaffected.
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson
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Agnar was stung because the English rejected him, and, with the help of Siward, chose, rather than foster the insolence of the province that despised him, to dispeople it and leave its fields, which were matted in decay, with none to till them.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely dispeople and destroy.
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Arthur was no friend to the pursuit of the grail; not that he loves not, with a passion white as sun's flame, the good and pure, but that he has sagacity to see such quest will scatter the round table and its fellowship, and would dispeople his forces, whose presence makes for peace and sovereignty in all his realm and compels the sovereignty of law.
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If your Majesty were tormented night and day by fever, gout, rheumatism, and stone, and asthma, etc., and you found these diseases had secretly entered into a conspiracy to abandon you, should you think it necessary to lay an embargo on the port by which they meant to dispeople your unquiet kingdom of man?
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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If your Majesty were tormented night and day by fever, gout, rheumatism, and stone, and asthma, etc., and you found these diseases had secretly entered into a conspiracy to abandon you, should you think it necessary to lay an embargo on the port by which they meant to dispeople your unquiet kingdom of man?
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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