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

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Example Sentences

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repeople repeopled repeopling

Can all the works which saints, or sages, or sophists have ever written, repeople this lonely tower, or can they refit this tenement?

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham

In him was to be the beginning of a new race which they hoped with the aid of science would repeople the earth.

From Omega, the Man by Leo Morey

These facts being admitted, and who does not see the necessity of divine interference, whenever one race of animals and plants passed from the earth in order to repeople it?

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

There is no plausible correspondence between these cases and the sending out from the ark of the patriarchal family to repeople the world.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

We left none to represent us, none to repeople the desart land, and the name of England died, when we left her, In vagabond pursuit of dreadful safety.

From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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, these low-studded apartments, secret divans and closets became repeopled by their former tenants.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

The deserted sites of Carthage and Corinth were repeopled with Roman colonists and once more became flourishing cities.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

The towns of Platæa and Thespiæ were restored and repeopled under Athenian influence.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

I think also that Cassander's punishment was deferred that Thebes might be repeopled.

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

This, also, looks very much as if they were indeed repeopling an empty and desolated world..

From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly

The earth needs repeopling, so I must let her go.

From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton

The idea of repeopling old battlefields with the shades of vanished hosts is not novel.

From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Our master of ceremonies revelled that day in repeopling the queer old streets down into which we were looking from our charming elevation.

From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields

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