depopulate

depopulate is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
2. intransitive verb. To become dispeopled.
3. verb. reduce in population

   "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

   Synonyms: desolate

Synonyms

desolate

Common word forms

depopulated, depopulates, depopulating

Words from these letters

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