repeople

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

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.

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