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verb (v)

• reduce in population(verb.change)

  Example:
  The epidemic depopulated the countryside.
  

  Synonym:
  desolate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To become dispeopled.(verb)

  source: webster1913