Depopulate

Definition: Depopulate

Depopulate

Verb

1. Reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside".

Date "depopulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references)

Synonym: Depopulate

Synonym: desolate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ejection	Turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople, dispeople; depopulate; relegate, deport.
Seclusion Exclusion	Depopulate; dispeople, unpeople.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Depopulate

English words defined with "depopulate": Depeople, Depopulating, Dispeople ♦ Unpeople. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Depopulate (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Depopulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Depopulate" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	6	143,867

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "depopulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpopulloj (dispeople), shpopullohet. (various references)

Arabic		‏أخلي من السكان. (various references)

Bulgarian		обезлюдявам се, намалявам населението на. (various references)

Czech		vylidnit (unpeople). (various references)

Farsi		کم جمعیت کردن , ازابادی انداختن (Desolate). (various references)

Finnish		autioittaa (lay waste). (various references)

French		dépeupler. (various references)

German		entvölkern (to depopulate). (various references)

Greek		ερημώνω (desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage). (various references)

Hungarian		elnéptelenít (dispeople, to desolate, to unpeople, unpeople). (various references)

Italian		spopolare (become depopulated). (various references)

Manx		jee-phobblaghey (depopulation), jee-chlannaghey (depopulation). (various references)

Norwegian		avfolke. (various references)

Pig Latin		epopulateday

Portuguese		despovoar (desolate, dispersal, unpeople). (various references)

Romanian		depopula (dispeople, unpeople). (various references)

Russian		уменьшаться (abate, come down, decline, decrease, diminish, dwindle, grow down, grow downwards, peter out, remit, take off), обезлюдеть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smanjiti broj stanovnika. (various references)

Spanish		despoblar (dispeople, to deforest, to disafforest, to disforest). (various references)

Swedish		avfolka (desolate, dispeople, unpeople). (various references)

Turkish		nüfusunu azaltmak (depeople, unpeople), nüfus azaltılması yoluna gitmek. (various references)

Ukranian		винищувати населення (dispeople). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "depopulate": depopulated, depopulates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Depopulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deroualt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "depopulate" (pronounced dēpÄ"pyulā't)
8	-p Ä" p y u l ā' t	populate.
7	-Ä" p y u l ā' t	copulate.
6	-p y u l ā' t	manipulate, stipulate.
5	-y u l ā' t	accumulate, articulate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, emulate, formulate, inoculate, miscalculate, overregulate, recalculate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, strangulate, tabulate.
4	-u l ā' t	adulate, annihilate, assimilate, congratulate, correlate, distillate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, gastrulate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, mutilate, oscillate, percolate, postulate, recapitulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate.
3	-l ā' t	angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-o-p-p-t-u"
	-1 letter: outleaped, populated.
	-2 letters: lappeted, populate, upleaped.
	-3 letters: adoptee, eelpout, epaulet, outleap, peopled, petaled, pleated, pupated, tadpole, toppled, upleapt.
	-4 letters: autoed, dapple, delate, depute, elated, elodea, eloped, eluate, eluted, lapped, lappet, laptop, leaped, lopped, louped, louted, oleate, papule, pealed, pedalo, pedate, peepul, pelota, pelted, people, plated, pouted, pulped, pupate, tapped, teledu, topped, topple, toupee, tupelo.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-o-p-p-t-u"
	+1 letter: depopulated, depopulates, repopulated.
	+3 letters: overpopulated.
	+4 letters: underpopulated.
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