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repeople

repeople verb: to repopulate.

Verb

repeople (third-person singular simple present repeoples, present participle repeopling, simple past and past participle repeopled)

  1. To repopulate.
    • they issued forth of the mountaines, to repeople the world againe, which they found replenished onely with Serpents.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 333

Forms of repeople

third-person singular presentrepeoples
present participlerepeopling
past participlerepeopled
pastrepeopled

Origin of repeople

From re- + people.

Questions about repeople

What does repeople mean?
Repeople means to repopulate.
What part of speech is repeople?
Repeople is a verb.
What is the past tense of repeople?
The past tense of repeople is repeopled.

Words near repeople in the dictionary

  1. repentings
  2. repentista
  3. repentistas
  4. repentless
  5. repents
  6. repeople
  7. repeopled
  8. repeoples
  9. repeopling
  10. reperceive
  11. reperceived

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