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

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 Moore, George (George Augustus)

An emigration from Limousin and the Rouergue was called for to repeople the waste places.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The king endeavoured to repeople the country by his conquests.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William

When Deucalion and Pyrrha went forth to repeople the world after a flood, they were told by the oracle to cast over their shoulders the bones of their mother.

From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John

Agis, therefore, believing it a glorious action, as in truth it was, to equalize and repeople the state, began to sound the inclinations of the citizens.

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

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

Toward the end of the reign of Louis XI. the city had become repeopled, after many preceding years of flood, ravage, and famine, and contained, it is said, nearly three hundred thousand souls.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

As the winter closed in, their attacks became more frequent; and districts, repeopled during the interval of calm, were again made desolate.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

Henry's mind, always so sensitive to the things of the forest, repeopled it.

From The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

All the Andalusian towns were wholly or in part emptied of their Mohammedan population when taken by the Christians, and repeopled with Castilians and others from Northern Spain.

From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

Deucalion repeopling the world is repeated in Xololt, who, after the destruction of the world, descended to Mictlan, the realm of the dead, and brought thence a bone of the perished race.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius

With great energy, the prince devoted himself to the rebuilding and the repeopling of the capital; many years, however, passed away ere it regained even the shadow of its former splendor.

From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

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 Fields, James T.