repeople
Americanverb (used with object)
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to furnish again with people.
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to restock with animals.
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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The king endeavoured to repeople the country by his conquests.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William
I eat them up with my eyes and repeople the heath with those who raised them.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
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
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
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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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
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
It was twice destroyed by the Saracens in the 8th and the 10th centuries; but it was afterwards repeopled by a colony from Genoa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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)
We were not simply inserting blacks, but repeopling the national perspective.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017
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
This, also, looks very much as if they were indeed repeopling an empty and desolated world..
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Donnelly, Ignatius
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.
Our master of ceremonies revelled that day in repeopling the queer old streets down into which we were looking from our charming elevation.
From Yesterdays with Authors by Fields, James T.
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