repeople

American  

[ree-pee-puhl] / riˈpi pəl /

verb (used with object)

repeopled, repeopling

1. to furnish again with people.

2. to restock with animals.

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Etymology

Origin of repeople

First recorded in 1475–85, repeople is from the Middle French word repeupler, Old French. See re-, people

Example Sentences

The king endeavoured to repeople the country by his conquests.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William

From this class of his pictures alone one can repeople Holland with the spirits of the seventeenth century.

From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

I wished to know the great waterway intimately in its various phases,—to see with my own eyes what the borderers saw; in imagination, to redress the pioneer stage, and repeople it.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

I eat them up with my eyes and repeople the heath with those who raised them.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

So shall our sons, now fighting in France, have a language ready for the land they shall recreate and repeople.

From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir