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