DEPOPULATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they depopulate ... he / she / it depopulates

Past simple: depopulated

Past participle: depopulated

-ing form: depopulating

Meaning:

Reduce in population

Example:

The epidemic depopulated the countryside

Synonyms:

depopulate; desolate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "depopulate" is one way to...):

reduce; shrink (reduce in size; reduce physically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

depopulation (the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all))