unpeople

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to remove the inhabitants from a place or cause it to become deserted

   War can unpeople an entire region within months.

Formed from un- in its reversing or depriving sense and the verb people, meaning 'to populate.' The rare literary verb therefore means to strip a place of its people or inhabitants.

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