repeople

American  

[ree-pee-puhl] / riˈpi pəl /

verb (used with object)

repeopled, repeopling

1. to furnish again with people.

2. to restock with animals.

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Etymology

Origin of repeople

First recorded in 1475–85, repeople is from the Middle French word repeupler, Old French. See re-, people

Example Sentences

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repeople repeopled repeopling

Now the men of Leon besought the King that he would repeople Zamora, which had lain desolate since it was destroyed by Almanzor.

From Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey

Let those women who have it in their power to repeople the earth which has lost so many millions of its sons, cherish that delusion of the supreme importance of love; but not I!

From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

We women have now decided to repeople the earth scientifically with a race as wholesome in body as our instruction shall render it in mind.

From The Gay Rebellion by Edmund Frederick

Old Mortality, on the other hand, is remarkable as the novelist's first attempt to repeople the past by the power of imagination working on materials furnished by books.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Why was it necessary to repeople the earth?

From The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns by Roger Thompson Finlay

But perhaps Troy is now more a zone of the imagination, rebuilt and repeopled every time someone makes it afresh in their mind – through the act of reading or looking, writing or making.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019

All the Andalusian towns were wholly or in part emptied of their Mohammedan population when taken by the Christians, and repeopled with Castilians and others from Northern Spain.

From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert

After the deluge a few survivors repeopled the earth.

From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee

The probability is that after their decline Europe was repeopled by immigrants from Asia.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

The commerce of the West will once more return to the East where it began; and the whole region will be repeopled with the life that swarmed there in the best days of old Egypt.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

We were not simply inserting blacks, but repeopling the national perspective.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

But in Africa, where at present Caius was engaged in the repeopling of Carthage, which he named Junonia, many ominous appearances, which presaged mischief, are reported to have been sent from the gods.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

Cicero, who had hitherto opposed an agrarian law with all his violence, discovered now that something might be said in favor of draining "the sink of the city" 13 and repeopling Italy.

From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude

So general, indeed, was the depopulation of the empire in the time of Justinian, that it suggested to many of the emperors the project of repeopling those favoured districts by a fresh influx of inhabitants.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

The idea of repeopling old battlefields with the shades of vanished hosts is not novel.

From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich