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

She dropped into the rocking-chair and looked about the room, trying to repeople it with those fair, young, friendly faces.

From The Bishop's Shadow by Thurston, I. T. (Ida Treadwell)

Deucalion and Pyrrha followed the receding waves step by step down the steep mountain side, wondering how they should repeople the desolate earth.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)

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

The galleries of Italy and the verses of the poets can alone help us to repeople the Academy with its mixed multitude of athletes and of sages.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

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 Alger, William Rounseville

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

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)

The commerce of the West will once more return to the East where it began; and the whole region will be repeopled with the life that swarmed there in the best days of old Egypt.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh

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

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 Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

He received about forty-two thousand acres in the counties of Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary, and he set about repeopling this desolate region with his usual vigour of action.

From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew

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

The very solitude of the place aided the mind in the task of repeopling the empty streets of that dead city by the sea with the life that was hers nearly two thousand years ago.

From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

We thought this would contribute to the repeopling of the island, but the contrary has happened.

From The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by Van Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)