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单词 unpeople
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unpeople

verb /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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