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part of speech:	transitive verb
inflections:	depopulated, depopulates, depopulating
definition:	to eliminate or decrease vastly the number of people in (a place), as by eviction, disease, or slaughter. The plague depopulated Europe in the fourteenth century. similar words: desolate
derivations:	depopulation (n.), depopulator (n.)

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