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
Hauing passed Rio grande, the Gouernour trauelled a league and an halfe, and came to a great towne of Aquixo, which was dispeopled before hee came thither.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
How Mars and Pallas wept to see the Day When Athens by a Plague dispeopled lay.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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
By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson
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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