populate
verb (used with object)
to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
populated
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past participleof populate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof populate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
populateverb (used with object)to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
Example Sentences
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Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated tropical countries, making it a useful example of both the difficulties facing insect conservation and the opportunities for improving it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
On my boat, a packed, three-deck pleasure cruise otherwise populated by swimsuit-clad tourists and screaming infants, the story was much the same.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Around Versova, a densely populated neighbourhood on the city's northwest, at least 13 of India's 18 intercontinental submarine cables, external come ashore within six kilometres of one another.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
They are part of a government strategy that has seen much of the digital infrastructure for breakneck AI development across China's eastern seaboard established in the country's less populated, rural west.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
It was like flying over a country at night, over thinly populated lands.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
