dispeople
Americanverb (used with object)
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As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely dispeople and destroy.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
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
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 John O'Rourke
By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
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 Andrew Lang
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 Henry Hart Milman
The seaboard provinces were beginning to be dispeopled.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
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
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
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