DEPOPULATION


Meaning of DEPOPULATION in English

(|)dē+ noun

Etymology: Middle English depopulacioun devastation, from Latin depopulation-, depopulatio, from depopulatus + -ion-, -io -ion

: the act of depopulating or the state of being depopulated:

a. archaic : devastation

the Danes … infested those parts with wide depopulation — John Milton

b. : reduction of population

the causes of depopulation are physical, political, and economic — G.B.Longstaff

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