Lexic.us

2. Verb. To reintroduce a species into (an area). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repopulate

1. populate [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES] - See also: populate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repopulate

Literary usage of Repopulate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Immigrant Invasion by Frank Julian Warne (1913)
"Take the single year 1910 when 1042000 arrived; this number would about repopulate the State of Connecticut; it is more than sufficient to repopulate ..."

2. The Immigrant Invasion by Frank Julian Warne (1913)
"These recent immigrants alone would repopulate the whole of New England and have to spare, the latter number by itself being nearly equal to the present ..."

3. SAS 9.1.3 Open Metadata Interface: User's Guide by SAS Publishing, SAS Institute (2004)
"... a Repository 130 Clearing or Deleting a Repository There may be times when you want to clear the contents of a repository, for example, to repopulate it ..."

4. The Empire State: A Compendious History of the Commonwealth of New York by Benson John Lossing (1888)
"In 1880 there were within its borders natives of Connecticut enough to make a city as large on Bridgeport ; of Maine, to repopulate Bath ; of Massachusetts, ..."

5. Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Oceanby Marion F. Egge by Marion F. Egge (2000)
"Those few who remained made efforts to repopulate the region. In the early eighteenth century, Switzerland, unlike the rest of Europe, saw an increase in ..."

6. Stop Thief by Vincent Myron Masten (1921)
"That total exceeds one-third of all the arrivals from Europe since 1820, and would better than repopulate the New England states. ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"But current population movements will repopulate and somewhat change the character of village population. The average village will come to realize what its ..."

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