depopulate
verb (used with object)
to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
depopulates
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present tense formof depopulate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If the resuscitation of the State is desired by his labor, neither will be secured by a persecution which depopulates townships, and prevents the introduction of new labor and of capital.”
From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous
After a short period of activity, when the equal balance of loss and reparation is once removed, man quits the stage of life, and the law of mortality depopulates the earth.
From Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates two leagues of country near Cuzco XXXIII.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
In the Hebrides the failure of a harvest almost depopulates an island.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
Hence, "the horror of the taille depopulates the rural districts, concentrating in the towns all the talents and all the capital5254."
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
