| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| depopulate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·pop·u·late |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -p p y -l t |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: de·pop·u·lat·ed, de·pop·u·lat·ing, de·pop·u·lates
To reduce sharply the population of, as by disease, war, or forcible relocation. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin dpopulri, dpopult-, to lay waste : d-, de- + populr , to ravage (from populus, people, throng). | | OTHER FORMS: | de·popu·lation —NOUN
de·popu·lator —NOUN
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