1. emptied of people; depopulated
Usage: often used to describe a place that has lost its inhabitants

1. past tense and past participle of dispeopled; to empty of people; to depopulate
Usage: archaic or literary usage

Examples

• The war dispeopled entire villages across the region.
• The dispeopled towns stood silent and abandoned.
• Disease and famine dispeopled the countryside.
• After the evacuation, the city became a dispeopled landscape.
• The dispeopled island showed no signs of recent habitation.
• Economic collapse dispeopled the industrial areas.
• Centuries of conflict had dispeopled the once-thriving settlement.