depopulate
English
Etymology
de- + populate or Latin dēpopulō
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- (transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- c. 1607 William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act III, Scene 1,[1]
- Where is this viper
- That would depopulate the city and
- Be every man himself?
- 1716, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad: of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Book 5, p. 48, lines 681-685,[2]
- So two young Mountain Lions, nurs’d with Blood
- In deep Recesses of the gloomy Wood,
- Rush fearless to the Plains, and uncontroul’d
- Depopulate the Stalls and waste the Fold;
- 2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, New York: Penguin, Chapter 17, p. 548,
- The agricultural modernization of the 1950s and 1960s, the migration of the sons and daughters of peasants to the cities, had been steadily depleting and depopulating the French countryside.
- c. 1607 William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act III, Scene 1,[1]
- (transitive, electronics) To remove the components from a circuit board.
- (intransitive) To become depopulated, to lose its population.
- 1849, William Henry Bartlett, The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., Chapter 1, p. 29,[3]
- […] 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.
- 1917, Robert Louis Stevenson, Poems of François Villon, Boston: John W. Luce, Critical Biography, p. 1,[4]
- […] on the 2d of December our Henry Sixth made his Joyous Entry dismally enough into disaffected and depopulating Paris.
- 1994, Kenneth Coward: The Welfare: A Concise Archival History of Social Services, Owen Sound, Ontario, Appendix III, p. 56,[5]
- Rural Canada was depopulating and immigrants were needed.
- 2008, Gary Presley, Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, Chapter 15, p. 80,[6]
- Visitors dwindled over time. […] My world shrank as it depopulated. It became my room, the front room, and the kitchen.
- 1849, William Henry Bartlett, The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., Chapter 1, p. 29,[3]
Translations
to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
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See also
Adjective
depopulate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Depopulated.
- 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, The firste yere of The vnquiete tyme of Kyng Henry the fourthe, p. xix[7]
- A world it was to see […] his daily peregrinacion in the desert, felles and craggy mountains of that bareine vnfertile and depopulate countrey.
- c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book Two, p. 30,[8]
- 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, The firste yere of The vnquiete tyme of Kyng Henry the fourthe, p. xix[7]
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) dēpopulāte
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