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Dispeople \Dis*peo"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispeopled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispeopling.] [Pref. dis- + people: cf. F. d['e]peupler.] To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.
Leave the land dispeopled and desolate.
--Sir T. More.
A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea
rivers.
--Milton.
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vb. (present participle of dispeople English)
Usage examples of "dispeopling".
When the despair of the Greek subjects invited Calo- John as their deliverer, they hoped that he would protect their liberty and adopt their laws: they were soon taught to compare the degrees of national ferocity, and to execrate the savage conqueror, who no longer dissembled his intention of dispeopling Thrace, of demolishing the cities, and of transplanting the inhabitants beyond the Danube.
When the despair of the Greek subjects invited Calo- John as their deliverer, they hoped that he would protect their liberty and adopt their laws: they were soon taught to compare the degrees of national ferocity, and to execrate the savage conqueror, who no longer dissembled his intention of dispeopling Thrace, of demolishing the cities, and of transplanting the inhabitants beyond the Danube.