populate

present singular third person populates · participle present populating · participle past populated · past populated

1. transitiveTo supply with inhabitants; to people.
2. transitiveTo live in; to inhabit.
3. intransitiveTo increase in number; to breed.
4. ambitransitivecomputingTo fill initially empty items in a collection.

   Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.

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   John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.

5. businessTo fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

comparative more populate · superlative most populate

1. obsoletepopulous

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   Now, a famous King, and ſtrengthened with a Prince of ſingular expectation, and in the prime of his years, owner of the entire Iſle of Britain, enjoying Ireland populate and quiet, and infinitely more ſupported by Confederates of the Low-Countries, Denmarke, divers of the Princes of Germany and others.

   a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Bacon Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, “Notes of a Speech, concerning a War with Spaine”, in Letters, Memoirs, Parliamentary Affairs, State Papers, &c., London: Robert Stephens, published 1736, page 228