repeople

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ people.

Verb

repeople (third-person singular simple present repeoples, present participle repeopling, simple past and past participle repeopled)

To repopulate.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , II.12:
  they issued forth of the mountaines, to repeople the world againe, which they found replenished onely with Serpents.

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