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populate

[pop-yuh-leyt] / ˈpɒp yəˌleɪt /
VERB
supply with inhabitants
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STRONG


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Populate it with potential victims, add a monster and you’ve got everything you need to make things go bump in the night.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2020

One stanza of a song glorifying Grand Rapids rhapsodizes: Sunday morning bright and early Streets of maple, oak and birch Populate themselves with people On their quiet way to church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Populate the land with more animal life than it can support, or with more vegetable forms than it can sustain, and a weeding-out process will begin.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John




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