DEPOPULATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city Shak.

2.
v.

To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.