transcription, транскрипция: [ di:pɒpjʊleɪt ]
( depopulates, depopulating, depopulated)
To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.
VERB : V n
• de‧popu‧lat‧ed
...a small, rural, and depopulated part of the south-west.
ADJ
• de‧popu‧la‧tion
...rural depopulation.
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