Depopulate

Quick meaning: Depopulate is a verb meaning (transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.

Meaning

(transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, electronics) To remove the components from a circuit board.
2. (intransitive) To become depopulated, to lose its population.
3. (as a participle) Depopulated (sense 1).
4. (as a participial adjective) Barren, devoid of inhabitants; utterly destroyed, devastated .

Example Sentences

Rural Canada was depopulating and immigrants were needed.

Where is this viper That would depopulate the city and Be every man himself?

Visitors dwindled over time. […] My world shrank as it depopulated. It became my room, the front room, and the kitchen.

[…] on the 2d of December our Henry Sixth made his Joyous Entry dismally enough into disaffected and depopulating Paris.

Word Forms

• depopulates
• depopulating
• depopulated

Synonyms for depopulate

Depending on context, synonyms include depeople, desolate, dispeople, unpeople, unpopulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include desolate, unpopulate, depeople, unpeople, dispeople, underpopulate.

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