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
As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely dispeople and destroy.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis
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 Johnson, Samuel
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 Black, Robert
A dreadful solitude surrounded our steps; the land was quite dispeopled, there was no smoke of fires, and save for a single boat of merchants on the second day, we met no travellers.
From Master of Ballantrae by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The revenue is exhausted; the cities are ruined; the provinces are dispeopled.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart
The other day I heard one from the county of Limerick say, that whole villages were entirely dispeopled.
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John
The poets have usually, like Keats, regretted the days when "There was an awful rainbow once in heaven," when the hills and streams were not yet "dispeopled of their dreams."
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
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 Phillips, Stephen
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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