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repopulate

repopulate verb: to populate again; to breed among a group in order to keep the population up.

Verb

repopulate (third-person singular simple present repopulates, present participle repopulating, simple past and past participle repopulated)

  1. To populate again; to breed among a group in order to keep the population up.
  2. (transitive) To reintroduce a species into (an area).
  3. To fill with data again; to refresh.
    • to repopulate a grid

Forms of repopulate

third-person singular presentrepopulates
present participlerepopulating
past participlerepopulated
pastrepopulated

Past tense of repopulate: repopulated

Origin of repopulate

From re- + populate.

Words formed from repopulate

Questions about repopulate

What does repopulate mean?
Repopulate means to populate again; to breed among a group in order to keep the population up.
What part of speech is repopulate?
Repopulate is a verb.
What is the past tense of repopulate?
The past tense of repopulate is repopulated.

Words near repopulate in the dictionary

  1. repopularization
  2. repopularize
  3. repopularized
  4. repopularizes
  5. repopularizing
  6. repopulate
  7. repopulated
  8. repopulates
  9. repopulating
  10. repopulation
  11. repopulations

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