depopulate

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
2. verb To remove the components from a circuit board.
3. verb To become depopulated, to lose its population.
4. adjective Depopulated (sense 1).
5. adjective Barren, devoid of inhabitants; utterly destroyed, devastated.

Similar words

desolate unpopulate depeople unpeople dispeople underpopulate depauperize deurbanize downsize deplete

Often followed by

the a and it their as his our whole

Word family

depopulated depopulates depopulating depopulation depopulations