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, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 333:
  they issued forth of the mountaines, to repeople the world againe, which they found replenished onely with Serpents.

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