Dispeople

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To empty of people or inhabitants. transitive

    "[...] the poſſeſſion of all thoſe Townes and Countries within thir now Quarters, being little leſs than the Iland, beſides what thir Cruelty hath diſpeopl'd and lay'd waſt."

Synonyms

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depopulatedepopulatedesolatedesolatedevastate

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"[...] the poſſeſſion of all thoſe Townes and Countries within thir now Quarters, being little leſs than the Iland, beſides what thir Cruelty hath diſpeopl'd and lay'd waſt."

Etymology

From dis- + people.

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