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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13 words match “POPULATE”

POPULATE v. 3 definitions
To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.
DEPOPULATE v. 2 definitions
greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city Shak.
DENIZEN v.
To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. J. D. Hooker.
DEPEOPLE v.
To depopulate. [Obs.]
DEPOPULATION n.
The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants. The desolation and depopulation [of St.Quentin] were now complete. Motley.
DEPOPULATOR n.
One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
DISPEOPLE v.
To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
FORESEE v.
To provide. [Obs.] Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
PEOPLE v.
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. "Peopled heaven with angels." Dryden. As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton .
POPULATOR n.
One who populates.
TOWN n.
larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. God made the country, and man made the town. Cowper.
UNDERHANDED a.
Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.
UNPEOPLE v.
To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Shak.