Definition of "populating" [populating]

• Present participle of populate. (verb)

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• "AK: I love what you've done in populating your landscape with bits of detritus from the Blake iconography, like the vines from "Holy Thursday.""
• "The fifth motive was the desire for a new home, what we call, the colonizing spirit, that has operated most widely in populating Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and a great part of South Africa."
• "The only way the Legislature will ever take up this issue in a serious way - putting aside the problem of having so many unserious folks with titles populating the Legislative Building"