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 Bacon, Francis
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 Johnson, Samuel
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 Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
A State becomes dispeopled or peopled in that Proportion, by which it recedes from one of these Methods, and approaches to the other.”
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
All those iles conteyne above twoo thousande leagues of lande, and are all dispeopled and laid waste.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard
This would be a rare jest to tell for forty years by many a swinging kettle, and while footing it in company over many a lonely and dispeopled heath.
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Yule, Henry
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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