Meanings
verbdispeople (third-person singular simple present dispeoples, present participle dispeopling, simple past and past participle dispeopled)
present singular third person dispeoples · participle present dispeopling · participle past dispeopled · past dispeopled
- transitiveTo empty of people or inhabitants.
[...] the poſſeſſion of all thoſe Townes and Countries within thir now Quarters, being little leſs than the Iland, beſides what thir Cruelty hath diſpeopl'd and lay'd waſt.
a. 1675, John Milton, Observations on the Articles of Peace; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 546Synonyms: depopulate
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo empty of people or inhabitants.
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Old Frenchdes-
- Latindis-
- Middle Englishdis-
- Englishdis-
- Middle Englishpeple
- Englishpeople
- Englishdispeople
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