transcription, транскрипция: [ pɒpjʊleɪt ]
( populates, populating, populated)
1.
If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers.
Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks.
...native Sindhis, who populate the surrounding villages.
= inhabit
VERB : be V-ed , V n
• popu‧lat‧ed
The southeast is the most densely populated area...
ADJ : adv ADJ
• -populated
Shelling from federal army tanks razed half the houses in the Croat-populated part of Glina.
COMB in ADJ
2.
To populate an area means to cause people to live there.
Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people.
VERB : V n with n