Dispeopler

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.

    "I, nor chuſe to bear / The thieviſh nightly net, not barbed ſpear: / Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, / Nor trovvle for pikes, diſpeoplers of the lake."

Example

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"I, nor chuſe to bear / The thieviſh nightly net, not barbed ſpear: / Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, / Nor trovvle for pikes, diſpeoplers of the lake."

Etymology

From dispeople + -er.

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