depopulate
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It grieves me, lordings, that my subjects' goods Should thus be spoiled by the Scithians, Who, as you see, with lightfoot foragers Depopulate the places where they come.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Depopulate, de-pop′ū-lāt, v.t. to deprive of population, to dispeople.—v.i. to become dispeopled.—adj. depopulated.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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