Meanings
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verb
to populate a place again after its inhabitants have left, disappeared, or been imagined away
With memories of former residents, Thoreau repeopled the silent woods in his mind.
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Etymology
Formed from re-, 'again,' + the verb people, 'fill with inhabitants.' Repeople has been recorded since the fifteenth century and may describe literal resettlement or the imaginative restoration of former inhabitants to a place.