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

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

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

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

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

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 Arthur Hugh Clough

The imagination has, for some reason or other, to make more than the effort usual in such cases to restore and repeople it.

From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell

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

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

This city, having been conquered, was repeopled with the nomad Sutî103 and placed under Assyrian rule.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches

Peace returned to the provinces, cities were repeopled, roads repaired, Rome abounded in provisions, and the people were satisfied.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith

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 Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

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

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

From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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

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