repeople

[ ree-pee-puhl ]

verb (used with object)

, re·peo·pled, re·peo·pling.

1. to furnish again with people.
2. to restock with animals.

Word History and Origins

Origin of repeople¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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Nevertheless, one human pair find refuge in a cave, and repeople the world.

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But who is to rebuild Babylon and to repeople the land of the Assyrians?

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The king endeavoured to repeople the country by his conquests.

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What though their children should multiply, and they should again build cities, and repeople its desolate territories?

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