adj
Meaning 1
Depopulated (sense 1).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
depopulate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /diːˈpɒpjəleɪt/
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General-American: /diˈpɑpjəleɪt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Barren, devoid of inhabitants; utterly destroyed, devastated .
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: depeople, desolate, dispeople, unpeople, unpopulate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To remove the components from a circuit board.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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verb
Meaning 5
To become depopulated, to lose its population.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
reduce in population
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The epidemic depopulated the countryside
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: desolate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shrink, reduce
History
Etymology
First attested in 1531; borrowed from Latin dēpopulātus, perfect active participle of dēpopulor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Compare depeople, French dépeupler, Italian spopolare, Spanish despoblar, Portuguese despovoar and Romanian despopora; by surface analysis, de- + populate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: despoblar — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Czech: vylidnit — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Danish: affolke — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Dutch: ontvolken — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- French: dépeupler — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- German: entvölkern — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Ido: despopulizar — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Irish: bánaigh — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Polish: wyludniać — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Polish: wyludnić — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
- Welsh: diboblogi — to reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.