0 past simple and past participle of depopulate --
1 to cause a country or area to have fewer people living in it: --
Those villages have been almost depopulated owing to economic conditions, and the fishermen now are unable to make a living.
If we over-tax spirits, employment will be lost and those areas will become depopulated.
Should it just become depopulated, or is he prepared to give further inducements to industries to go there?
As a result of poverty and disease, vast territories are virtually depopulated, even without war.
The regional differences between growth regions and depopulated areas could be increased.
Instead of allowing those areas to become depopulated, we should establish light industries there to produce consumer durable goods.
The highlands were largely depopulated by the clearances in earlier centuries.
Prior to the 1994 reforms, it was common for some fast-growing urban districts to have three, four, or even five times the number of voters as depopulated rural districts.
