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Definition of Depopulating
1. depopulate [v] - See also: depopulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depopulating
Literary usage of Depopulating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"... religious celibacy, standing armies, depopulating wars and epidemics, lack of
numerical proportion between the sexes due to economic conditions, ..."
2. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"... and to restrain her people from that spirit of emigration which is every day
depopulating many portions of the state. Engaged, as four-fifths of her ..."
3. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"introduced at Rome by Histrions, who, as already mentioned, were summoned from
Etruria, in order to allay the pestilence which was depopulating the city. ..."
4. Camp-fire and Cotton-field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the by Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)
"Depopulating the Border Counties.—Two Examples of Grand Strategy.—Capture of
the "Little-More-Grape" Battery.—A Woman in Sorrow.—Frontier Justice. ..."
5. Barriers to the National Prosperity of Scotland: Or, An Inquiry Into Some of by Alexander Robertson, Alister R. (1853)
"As we have in last chapter inquired particularly into the effects of depopulating
country districts, and sweeping the inhabitants into towns, ..."
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