depopulate (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *depopulate*:
VERB	change	depopulate, desolate	reduce in population

depopulate > pronunciation
Sounds	diypaa'pyahley.t
Rhymes	abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt...

English > *depopulate*: 1 sense > verb 1, change
Meaning	Reduce in population.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Example	"The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
Synonym	desolate
Broader	shrink, reduce	Reduce in size
Spanish	despoblar
Catalan	despoblar
Nouns	depopulation	the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)

HyperDic: depopulate