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DEPOPULATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does depopulate mean?
• DEPOPULATE (verb)
The verb DEPOPULATE has 1 sense:
1. reduce in population
Familiarity information: DEPOPULATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they depopulate ... he / she / it depopulates
Past simple: depopulated
Past participle: depopulated
-ing form: depopulating
... he / she / it depopulates Past simple: depopulated
Past participle: depopulated
-ing form: depopulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduce in population
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
depopulate; desolate
Context example:
The epidemic depopulated the countryside
Hypernyms (to "depopulate" is one way to...):
reduce; shrink (reduce in size; reduce physically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
depopulation (the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all))
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