dispeople
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- dispeoplement noun
- dispeopler noun
Etymology
Origin of dispeople
Example Sentences
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Their chiefs, Messapus, and Ufens, and Mezentius, scorner of the gods, begin to enrol forces on all sides, and dispeople the wide fields of husbandmen.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely dispeople and destroy.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis
The port is made by an inlet of the sea, deep and narrow, where a ship lay waiting to dispeople Sky, by carrying the natives away to America.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel
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