unpeople

[ uhn-pee-puhl ]

verb (used with object)

, un·peo·pled, un·peo·pling.

1. to deprive of people; person; depopulate.

unpeople

/ ʌnˈpiːpəl /

verb

1. tr to empty of people

Word History and Origins

Origin of unpeople¹

First recorded in 1525–35; un- ² + people

Example Sentences

In the decades since, there has been some slow repatriation, but tens of thousands of Faili remain caught, unpeople welcome nowhere.

From The Guardian

There are people here, but they are in the process of becoming unpeople.

From The New Yorker

Trump’s liberal apologists won’t cry for them, or even acknowledge their existence: they are, apparently, unpeople, rather than kids clutching teddy bears as western-backed bombs rain on their heads.

From The Guardian

"We are illegitimate people, unpeople. Make us legitimate and we'll show our faces."

From BBC

This, or rather, these Scourges, for they are very numerous, are Quacks; of which there are two Species: The Mountebanks or travelling Quacks, and those pretended Physicians in Villages and Country-Places, both male and female, known in Swisserland by the Name of Conjurers, and who very effectually unpeople it.

From Project Gutenberg