populate
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From Latin populus (“‘the people’”).
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to populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)
- (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
- (intransitive) To live in; to inhabit.
- (computing, transitive) To fill initially empty items in a list.
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.
