verb
- causing a place to lose its population; making an area have fewer or no inhabitants
Usage: present participle of depopulate
Examples
- The war was depopulating entire villages across the region.
- Economic hardship is depopulating many rural towns.
- Disease was rapidly depopulating the coastal settlements.
- The factory closure is depopulating the industrial district.
- Natural disasters have been depopulating the island for decades.
- Urban migration is depopulating the countryside.