Definition of "dispeople" []

• To depopulate. (verb-transitive)

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• "As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely dispeople and destroy."
• "The port is made by an inlet of the sea, deep and narrow, where a ship lay waiting to dispeople"
• "If your Majesty were tormented night and day by fever, gout, rheumatism, and stone, and asthma, etc., and you found these diseases had secretly entered into a conspiracy to abandon you, should you think it necessary to lay an embargo on the port by which they meant to dispeople your unquiet kingdom of man?"