verb transitiveWord forms: disˈpeopled or disˈpeopling
Obsolete
depopulate
dispeople in American English
(dɪsˈpipəl)
transitive verbWord forms: -pled, -pling
to deprive of people; depopulate
Derived forms
dispeoplement
noun
dispeopler
noun
Word origin
[1480–90; dis-1 + people]This word is first recorded in the period 1480–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: absorb, blackbird, cone, marker, terminal