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unpeopleverb /ʌnˈpiːp(ə)l / [with object]Dramatically reduce the population of an area; depopulate: diseases that once threatened to completely unpeople the western hemisphere...- 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.
plural noun /ˈʌnpiːp(ə)l/A group of people regarded as politically unimportant or without rights: the unpeople are ignored by the elite...- These sections provide us with a timely account of this most recent war of the elite upon the unpeople.
- The victims of these policies are "unpeople" - they do not count and they are not counted.
- 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.
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