1. to populate again; to provide with new inhabitants
Usage: formal

Examples

• The government plans to repeople the abandoned villages with new settlers.
• After the war, efforts were made to repeople the devastated region.
• The island was repeopled by immigrants from the mainland.
• Conservation groups hope to repeople the area with indigenous communities.
• The city council voted to repeople the empty neighborhoods.
• Historians studied how ancient civilizations would repeople conquered territories.