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repeople

[ree-pee-puh l]

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verb (used with object), re·peo·pled, re·peo·pling.

to furnish again with people.

to restock with animals.

Origin of repeople

First recorded in 1475–85, repeople is from the Middle French word repeupler, Old French. See re-, people

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Examples from the Web for repeople

Historical Examples of repeople

It was necessary to repeople his capital and to attract others than Turks to it.
The Turkish Empire, its Growth and Decay
Lord Eversley
But who is to rebuild Babylon and to repeople the land of the Assyrians?
London
Walter Besant
I eat them up with my eyes and repeople the heath with those who raised them.
Children of the Mist
Eden Phillpotts
The king endeavoured to repeople the country by his conquests.
The History of Sumatra
William Marsden
The "long array of shadows," the "beings of the mind," come to him "like truth," and repeople the vacancy.
The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2
George Gordon Byron