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unpeopling

unpeopling is the present participle and gerund of unpeople.

Meaning of unpeople

Verb

unpeople (third-person singular simple present unpeoples, present participle unpeopling, simple past and past participle unpeopled)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.
    • Let him bring millions infinite of men,
      Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:
      Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

Questions about unpeopling

What is unpeopling the present participle and gerund of?
Unpeopling is the present participle and gerund of unpeople.

Words near unpeopling in the dictionary

  1. unpenurious
  2. unpeople
  3. unpeopled
  4. unpeopledness
  5. unpeoples
  6. unpeopling
  7. unpeppered
  8. unpeppery
  9. unpeppy
  10. unperceivable
  11. unperceivably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpeopling (page history and authors); unpeople (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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