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 Reed, Helen Leah

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)

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 Hitchcock, Edward

Now the men of Leon besought the King that he should repeople Zamora, which had lain desolate since it was destroyed by Almanzor.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various

He would "repeople" her with her own past, and "stamp her image" on the creations of his pen.

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

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

It would be worse than useless to return to the Indian camp, that might at any moment be repeopled.

From At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear by Munroe, Kirk

Now which of these systems has ever consoled an afflicted heart, or repeopled a lonely one?

From Catholic Churchmen in Science by Walsh, James J.

The State will be repeopled; this chief thing, this one thing will bring all the rest into order again.

From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules

On landing they cast behind them over their heads the fruits of the mauritia palm-tree, when the seeds contained in those fruits produced men and women, who repeopled the earth.

From The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

Precipitous, with his reeling Satyr rout about him, repeopling and re-illuming suddenly the waste places, drunk with a new fury beyond the grape, Bacchus, born in fire, fire-like flings himself at 72the Cretan.

From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther

The first care of the sovereigns was directed towards repeopling the depopulated city with their own subjects.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

Then, however, the Russian government held out inducements to settlers, and these have been responded to by Russians, Greeks, Armenians and Rumanians, but the process of repeopling the long deserted territory is slow and difficult.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various