English-Thai Dictionary

depopulate

VT ลด จำนวน ประชากร  dispeople desolate lod-jam-nuan-pra-cha-kon

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPOPULATE

v.t.[L. To ravage or lay waste. ] To dispeople; to unpeople; to deprive of inhabitants, whether by death, or by expulsion. It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers. The deluge nearly depopulated the earth.

 

DEPOPULATE

v.i.To become dispeopled.

 

DEPOPULATED

pp. Dispeopled; deprived of inhabitants.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEPOPULATE

De *pop "u *late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depopulated; p. pr. & vb. n.Depopulating. ] Etym: [L. depopulatus, p. p. of depopulari to ravage; de- + populari to ravage, fr. populus people: cf. OF. depopuler, F. dépeupler. See People. ]

 

Defn: To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city Shak.

 

Note: It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers; as, the deluge depopulated the earth.

 

DEPOPULATE

DEPOPULATE De *pop "u *late, v. i.

 

Defn: To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

depopulate

de pop u late |dēˈpäpyəˌlāt ˌdiˈpɑpjəˌleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] substantially reduce the population of (an area ): the disease could depopulate a city the size of New Haven. DERIVATIVES de pop u la tion |-ˌpäpyəˈlāSHən |noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘ravage, lay waste ’): from Latin depopulat- ‘ravaged, ’ from the verb depopulari, from de- ‘completely ’ + populari ‘lay waste ’ (from populus ‘people ’).

 

Oxford Dictionary

depopulate

de |popu ¦late |diːˈpɒpjʊleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] substantially reduce the population of (an area ): the disease could depopulate a town the size of Bournemouth. DERIVATIVES depopulation noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘ravage, lay waste ’): from Latin depopulat- ‘ravaged ’, from the verb depopulari, from de- ‘completely ’ + populari ‘lay waste ’ (from populus ‘people ’).

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

depopulate

de pop u late /dìːpɑ́pjəlèɪt |-pɔ́pju -/動詞 他動詞 〖通例be ～d 〗【疫病 戦争などで 】〈ある地域の 〉住民 [人口 ]が激減する «by » ▸ The country was depopulated by a famine .飢饉 （ききん ）でその国の人口は減った