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English to English verb
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reduce in population |  | Example: The epidemic depopulated the countryside
source: wordnet30
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To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. | | source: webster1913
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To become dispeopled. | | source: webster1913
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