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Definition of unpeople in English: unpeopleverb ʌnˈpiːp(ə)lˌənˈpip(ə)l [with object]Dramatically reduce the population of an area; depopulate. diseases that once threatened to completely unpeople the western hemisphere Example sentencesExamples - The tribes formerly inhabiting this coast have long since been annihilated by continual wars, whose destructive effects have unpeopled this part of the country.
- For 130 miles we plowed through this nebulous and speculative world, peopling it, unpeopling it, fiddling like gods with its probable geology.
- Free trade unpeoples villages and peoples poorhouses, consolidates farms, and gluts the graveyards with famished corpses.
- He would in a short time have unpeopled the whole island if death had not sheltered 'em from his cruelties.
- These cruel landlords are every day unpeopling their kingdom by forbidding their miserable tenants to till the earth.
Synonyms clear, ask people to leave, force people to leave, make people leave, make people get out, empty, depopulate
plural noun ʌnˈpiːp(ə)l A group of people regarded as politically unimportant or without rights. the unpeople are ignored by the elite Example sentencesExamples - If it succeeds, then at the minimum the US government will no longer be able to treat married gays as unpeople.
- In his long list of 'unpeople' - the victims of this global order - Curtis places the million or so Indonesians who were slaughtered during General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in 1965.
- MC Paracat raps that this is an album "for the unpeoples around the world", whether they're on a council estate in London or living in Palestine.
- The victims of these policies are "unpeople" - they do not count and they are not counted.
- His death provoked the kind of reminiscences reserved for favoured heads of state and allies of the West, not for leaders of the vast mass of "unpeople" in the Third World.
- These sections provide us with a timely account of this most recent war of the elite upon the unpeople.
- Precious little has been heard from the 'unpeople' - including women, children and the elderly - who have been on the receiving end of such killing power.
Definition of unpeople in US English: unpeopleverbˌənˈpip(ə)lˌənˈpēp(ə)l [with object]usually as adjective unpeopledEmpty of people; depopulate. Example sentencesExamples - The tribes formerly inhabiting this coast have long since been annihilated by continual wars, whose destructive effects have unpeopled this part of the country.
- Free trade unpeoples villages and peoples poorhouses, consolidates farms, and gluts the graveyards with famished corpses.
- For 130 miles we plowed through this nebulous and speculative world, peopling it, unpeopling it, fiddling like gods with its probable geology.
- These cruel landlords are every day unpeopling their kingdom by forbidding their miserable tenants to till the earth.
- He would in a short time have unpeopled the whole island if death had not sheltered 'em from his cruelties.
Synonyms clear, ask people to leave, force people to leave, make people leave, make people get out, empty, depopulate
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