Associations to the word «Depopulate»

Wiktionary

DEPOPULATE, verb. (transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.

Dictionary definition

DEPOPULATE, verb. Reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope