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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of depeople.

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Examples

  • More haunting images of ruins, depeopled cities, and Gothic landscapes come from this gallery of abandoned places.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: 2009

  • More haunting images of ruins, depeopled cities, and Gothic landscapes come from this gallery of abandoned places.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: World Gothic spaces from abandoned places 2009

  • Every man has within him only one life and one nature to give to the service of God, and if there was but one way of doing that, celibate within the cloister, procreation and birth would cease, the world would be depeopled, and neither within nor without the Church would God receive worship.

    The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

  • The house was emptier than ever, half-depeopled by death and guilt, and the burden that fell back upon Judith's shoulders was the heavier by two childless widows for whom she must make provision.

    The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • A man would think the whole parish had been depeopled on Christmas Eve, no one will admit to having been out of his own house but to hurry to church, and not a man of them set eyes on any other living being in the streets that night.

    The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • Chapter Fourteen Afterwards They took back the living and the dead alike into Shrewsbury in the radiant, slanting light of morning, Iestyn, mute now and indifferent to his fate, to a lodging in the castle; Susanna, safe from any penalty in this world, to the depeopled household from which three generations together would shortly be carried to the grave.

    The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

  • Father, mother, and all his brethren, except little Katty, were vanished out of it, and as it came looming back to him thus depeopled, its aspect was immeasurably desolate.

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

  • One hundred in the shade kept the vicinity somewhat depeopled.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • Great was the slaughter, and ample the plunder; and the town, awed and depeopled, submitted to flame and to sword.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Great was the slaughter, and ample the plunder; and the town, awed and depeopled, submitted to flame and to sword.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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