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repopulating

repopulating is the present participle and gerund of repopulate.

Meaning of repopulate

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

Questions about repopulating

What is repopulating the present participle and gerund of?
Repopulating is the present participle and gerund of repopulate.

Words near repopulating in the dictionary

  1. repopularizes
  2. repopularizing
  3. repopulate
  4. repopulated
  5. repopulates
  6. repopulating
  7. repopulation
  8. repopulations
  9. repopulator
  10. repopulators
  11. report

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