repopulate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English populate

English repopulate

From re- + populate.

Verb

repopulate (third-person singular simple present repopulates, present participle repopulating, simple past and past participle repopulated)

1. To populate again; to breed among a group in order to keep the population up.
2. (transitive) To reintroduce a species into (an area).
3. (computing) To fill with data again; to refresh.

   to repopulate a grid

Derived terms

• repopulation
• repopulator

Translations

to breed among a group

• Italian: ripopolare (it)

to reintroduce a species

• Catalan: repoblar (ca)
• Italian: ripopolare (it)
• Spanish: repoblar (es)