unpeople
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of unpeople
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The ravages of a contagious disorder would be felt for ages; and an earthquake might unpeople a region for ever.
From An Essay on the Principle of Population by Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)
He must be at least thirty-five years old, a doctor of the faculty, and eminent for his religion and honesty, that his rashness or ignorance may not unpeople the commonwealth.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
Baur says, "The aim of Buddhism is that all may obtain unity with the original empty Space, so as to unpeople the worlds."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
But, come away— Get me some ink and paper: he shall have every day A several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
I have given him that Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after, Except she bend her humour, shall be assur'd To taste of too.
From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William
Their work shows that far from an unpeopled wilderness, the Northwest Pacific Coast was a managed and stewarded place for thousands of years.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
Something in me had been hungry for the vision of unpeopled streets, a suspension so rare that it was not to be missed.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
On this late summer’s afternoon the village has an air of tranquil prosperity, and is so still and unpeopled as to feel like a film set.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
A velvet rope was languishing, unpeopled, in front of the store—looking like a cross between the entrance to a club in the Meatpacking District and a teller line in a Bank of America branch.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2018
All around us, there was a vastness to the world, an unpeopled rawness, just the trees and the sky and the water reaching out toward nowhere.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
To get back to Della and Tatum, Sweet Pea and Packy, and Ida and Cal for a moment, here is what he told The Paris Review in 1988 about the unpeopling of American poetry:
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2015
Let those who denounce and deplore this harsh unpeopling come and stand upon the cold, bleak summit of one of these Sutherland mountains.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu
Talon never had in mind the unpeopling of France.
From The Great Intendant : A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)
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