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

Through the Dark Age the Greek cities had maintained a continuous life, but Mohammed II depopulated Constantinople to repeople it with a Turkish majority from Anatolia.

From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Forbes, Nevill

Stoaes taken from it, as Themis had enjoined, were used by Deucalion and Pyrrha to repeople the world which had been destroyed by a flood.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas

I eat them up with my eyes and repeople the heath with those who raised them.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

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 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

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

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

The orthodox modern historian, notably Green, remarks on the singularity of Britain in being alone of all Roman provinces wholly cleared and repeopled by a Germanic race.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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)

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

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

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)

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 Fields, James T.

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

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