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What (who) is depopulate - definition
depopulate
(depopulates, depopulating, depopulated)
To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.
VERB: V n
• depopulated
...a small, rural, and depopulated part of the south-west.
ADJ
• depopulation
...rural depopulation.
N-UNCOUNT
depopulate
v. a.
Dispeople, unpeople, deprive of inhabitants.
Examples of use of depopulate
1. In scorch earth policy, the NIF wants to depopulate the African of western Sudan.
2. There is worry that AIDS could severely depopulate Swaziland, a tiny nation of 1.2 million people on the border between South Africa and Mozambique.
3. No trace of them has ever been found. 1'88: The Anfal (‘Spoils‘) campaign is designed to depopulate the Kurdish regions in northern Iraq.
4. That step was part of a larger strategy to depopulate the region of Kurds, an effort that peaked at the end of the 1'80–88 Iran–Iraq war.
5. Regarding reports that Israel was intentionally trying to depopulate a large swathe of territory in the south, Mair said: ‘It‘s hard for us to speak about this.