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depopulates

depopulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of depopulate.

Meaning of depopulate

Verb

depopulate (third-person singular simple present depopulates, present participle depopulating, simple past and past participle depopulated)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
    • Where is this viper / That would depopulate the city and / Be every man himself?c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (transitive) To remove the components from a circuit board.
  3. (intransitive) To become depopulated, to lose its population.
    • […] the country […] has been rapidly depopulating, and utterly draining of its vital resources, till the unhappy population have sunk to the lowest depth of misery.1849, William Henry Bartlett, chapter 1, in The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co, page 29

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What is depopulates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Depopulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of depopulate.

Words near depopulates in the dictionary

  1. depopularized
  2. depopularizes
  3. depopularizing
  4. depopulate
  5. depopulated
  6. depopulates
  7. depopulating
  8. depopulation
  9. depopulations
  10. depopulative
  11. depopulator

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