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

Can all the works which saints, or sages, or sophists have ever written, repeople this lonely tower, or can they refit this tenement?

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

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

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

The army of illiterates would repeople Delaware and Nevada.

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

The imagination has, for some reason or other, to make more than the effort usual in such cases to restore and repeople it.

From A Little Tour of France by Pennell, Joseph

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

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

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

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)

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

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

But in Africa, where at present Caius was engaged in the repeopling of Carthage, which he named Junonia, many ominous appearances, which presaged mischief, are reported to have been sent from the gods.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

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 Froude, James Anthony

In the nullite chamber beneath Sugar Loaf's summit, he thought, were three couples whose knowledge and wisdom had preserved them for the repeopling of the Earth.

From When the Sleepers Woke by Zagat, Arthur Leo