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

An emigration from Limousin and the Rouergue was called for to repeople the waste places.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The army of illiterates would repeople Delaware and Nevada.

From Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

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 H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber

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

From Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey

The fact that the term of service was in most cases comparatively short made it necessary for the planter to repeople his estate at frequent intervals.

From Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

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 passed, and Antipas saw Jerusalem repeopled, the Temple rebuilt, peace after exile, the joy of bondage unloosed.

From Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus

Egypt was one of the first kingdoms founded after the deluge, and it is probable that those who repeopled it after this event, had retained many impressions of the former world.

From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous

What a vision it seems to us now—that wonderful Jews' quarter of the bright and busy city of Frankfort!—a vision of some far-off Oriental Pompeii, repeopled in a dream!

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

In 1241 Pest was destroyed by the Tatars, after whose departure in 1244 it was created a royal free city by Bela IV., and repeopled with colonists of various nationalities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017

The earth needs repeopling, so I must let her go.

From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton

Cicero, who had hitherto opposed an agrarian law with all his violence, discovered now that something might be said in favor of draining "the sink of the city" 13 and repeopling Italy.

From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude

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 John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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 Ignatius Donnelly

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