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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
repopulate

1590s, from re- + populate (v.). Related: Repopulated; repopulating.

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repopulate

vb. 1 To populate again, breed among a group in order to keep the population up. 2 To reintroduce a species into (an area).

Usage examples of "repopulate".

Hawkins had spent his whole life in the Park Service, helping to replant the Amazon, revegetate the Himalayas, cleanse the Great Barrier Reef, excoriate toxic waste from the Siberian steppe, and repopulate the vast herds of Africa.

For decades afterward, the egg was proclaimed a savior, a gift from God, a miracle to repopulate Minnesota.

They would house the art, science and philosophy and enough representatives of the human race to repopulate the planet when the dust settled.

Even so, he is always instantly recognizable as the same patriarchal character, forewarned by the same merciful god, who rides out the same universal flood in the same storm-tossed ark and whose descendants repopulate the world.

His continual, far from subtle hints that she should find a husband and raise a brood of children to repopulate the Cloister irritated her.

We move across the galaxy, we repopulate the terrible old worlds, and the new Universal history starts from that day, with the past wiped clean as if it never existed.

Lipuls on Gemworld stole many of those species to repopulate their own changing world.

In addition to the assistance to Israel, Christopher outlined his plans to repopulate the countries whose people had been wiped out by the madness.

Around a huge central Wellthe input staging area for Markovians who had taken part in the great experiment to repopulate the stars by becoming lesser creatures of their own design, living, reproducing, dying so the children could go out again to a universe their parents had abandonedwere 780 small areas.

One school of thought claims a world of grass and insects, another fantasizes about one that rapidly repopulates itself as if the atomic holocaust had never burned across the sky.

Hawaiian-Americans repopulated North America after the Apocalyptic War, these two terms were still being used in the original sense.

Their many-times great-grandfathers had repopulated Australia, the Americas, Japan, and China.

They repopulated the earth and were worshipped as gods in their nations .

With this sign that the land had begun to renew itself, Tezpi and his family went forth from their ark, multiplied and repopulated the earth.

We knew it might be centuries before Earth could be re-visited and repopulated, but there was no reason why we could not go on indefinitely as a stable, spaceborne society.