repeople

R1E1P3E1O1P3L1E1

verb

To repopulate.

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Meanings

verbrepeople (third-person singular simple present repeoples, present participle repeopling, simple past and past participle repeopled)

present singular third person repeoples · participle present repeopling · participle past repeopled · past repeopled

  1. To repopulate.

    they issued forth of the mountaines, to repeople the world againe, which they found replenished onely with Serpents.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 333
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    So they carried out the instructions of the oracle to the letter, and sure enough the stones which Deucalion threw turned into men, and the stones which Pyrrha turned into women. Thus was the earth repeopled after the great flood.

    1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 151

Origin

From re- + people.

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Chicago

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