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What does depopulate mean?

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  1. (transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
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In the areas we need to look at, our priority right now is to depopulate those areas.
It is in no one's best interests to depopulate the rural parts of our country.
Last Wednesday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced its decision to depopulate the high-risk region.
About 4,000 villages have been burnt and razed to the ground in an attempt to depopulate the area.
At a minimum, they move to cities, depopulate rural lands and stretch national resources.
He said it would depopulate the farm centres, that I had to stop the program, and it was a terrible thing.

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