peopling

Verb (1)

people (third-person singular simple present peoples, present participle peopling, simple past and past participle peopled)

1. (informal, rare) To interact with people; to socialize.
   • I don't people well.” “Not peopling well is a crap excuse,” I retorted, and started to step around him, but a sudden thought occurred to me.2018, Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Darkest Star, Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 149

Verb (2)

people (third-person singular simple present peoples, present participle peopling, simple past and past participle peopled)

1. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
   • He would not be alone, who all things can; / But peopled Heav'n with Angels, Earth with Man.1674, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, act II, scene I
2. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
3. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.
   • […] / As thick and numberless / As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, / […]a. 1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, lines 7–8

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