repeople

American  

[ree-pee-puhl] / riˈpi pəl /

verb (used with object)

repeopled, repeopling

1. to furnish again with people.

2. to restock with animals.

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Etymology

Origin of repeople

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

Example Sentences

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repeople repeopled repeopling

The simplest way to repeople the land was to attract colonists from the older colonies.

From Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

It was determined to repeople the 574,268 forfeited acres.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

From this class of his pictures alone one can repeople Holland with the spirits of the seventeenth century.

From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

We shall repeople the world with sons and daughters more bright and beautiful and more supple than any that have ever been seen yet.

From The Brook Kerith A Syrian story by George (George Augustus) Moore

Let those women who have it in their power to repeople the earth which has lost so many millions of its sons, cherish that delusion of the supreme importance of love; but not I!

From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

But perhaps Troy is now more a zone of the imagination, rebuilt and repeopled every time someone makes it afresh in their mind – through the act of reading or looking, writing or making.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019

In imagination Gustave repeopled the ruins and filled the weird forests with curious, haunting shapes.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard

Moorish rule over the port, which was renamed Jezirat-Kadis, lasted from 711 until 1262, when Cadiz was captured, rebuilt and repeopled by Alphonso X. of Castile.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

Some time afterwards, however, the island was repeopled by men from without, and Syloson completed his reign in peace, leaving the sceptre of Samos to his son.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

The orthodox modern historian, notably Green, remarks on the singularity of Britain in being alone of all Roman provinces wholly cleared and repeopled by a Germanic race.

From A Short History of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

We were not simply inserting blacks, but repeopling the national perspective.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

But in Africa, where at present Caius was engaged in the repeopling of Carthage, which he named Junonia, many ominous appearances, which presaged mischief, are reported to have been sent from the gods.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

So general, indeed, was the depopulation of the empire in the time of Justinian, that it suggested to many of the emperors the project of repeopling those favoured districts by a fresh influx of inhabitants.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

What delight he took in rebuilding the old place, with every legend of which he proved himself familiar, and repeopling it out of the storehouse of his fancy.

From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields

The very solitude of the place aided the mind in the task of repeopling the empty streets of that dead city by the sea with the life that was hers nearly two thousand years ago.

From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb