verb
- 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.