depopulates
Meaning of depopulates
- substantially reduce the population of (an area).
the disease could depopulate a town the size of Bournemouth
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘ravage, lay waste’): from Latin depopulat- ‘ravaged’, from the verb depopulari, from de- ‘completely’ + populari ‘lay waste’ (from populus ‘people’).
Information about depopulates
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of depopulates is: depopulate.
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Hyphenation of depopulates
de-pop-u-lates
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- depopulates is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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