depopulate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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?
   • 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;
2. 2

   To remove the components from a circuit board.

3. 3

   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.
   • […] on the 2d of December our Henry Sixth made his Joyous Entry dismally enough into disaffected and depopulating Paris.
   • Rural Canada was depopulating and immigrants were needed.
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   1. 4

      Depopulated (sense 1).

      • 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: […]
   2. 5

      Barren, devoid of inhabitants

      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.
      • Wroth for bright-cheekt Bryseis losse; whom from Lyrnessus spoiles, (His owne exploit) he brought away, as trophee of his toiles, When that town was depopulate;

The neighborhood

• neighbordepopulant
• neighbordepopulation
• neighbordepopulator
• neighbordepeople