Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Populous.
- 2transitive verb
To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
- 3intransitive verb
To propagate.
- 4verb
fill with inhabitants
"populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
- 5verb
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"
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