dispeople
Americanverb (used with object)
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Their chiefs, Messapus, and Ufens, and Mezentius, scorner of the gods, begin to enrol forces on all sides, and dispeople the wide fields of husbandmen.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
The port is made by an inlet of the sea, deep and narrow, where a ship lay waiting to dispeople Sky, by carrying the natives away to America.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely dispeople and destroy.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
His Tibet commences with the mountain region near Ya-chau; his 20 days' journey through a devastated and dispeopled tract is the journey to Ning-yuan fu.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
Within a league, and a halfe a league about this towne, was great townes dispeopled, and ouergrowne with grasse; which shewed, that they had been long without inhabitants.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
M. de Calonne had said, "the state was impoverished by victories, and the kingdom dispeopled through intolerance."
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
It is now sadly dispeopled; nowhere is there a free peasant on a free soil.
From Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 by Felix Dahn
The "air, floods, and wilds" were not "dispeopled."
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
I but raise An eyelid, and a continent shall cower; My finger makes the city a solitude, The murmuring metropolis a silence, And kingdoms pine in my dispeopling nod.
From Nero by Stephen Phillips
It is the misery of time and the terror of Nature, the dispeopling of the earth and the ruin of her beauty.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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