populate

populate is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Populous. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Populous.
2. transitive verb. To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
3. intransitive verb. To propagate.
4. verb. fill with inhabitants

   "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"

5. verb. inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of

   "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"

   "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"

   Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live

Synonyms

dwell, inhabit, live

Common word forms

populated, populates, populating

Words from these letters

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