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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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At a minimum, they move to cities, depopulate rural lands and stretch national resources.
As well, they must agree to depopulate an entire breeding barn and commit to not housing swine breeding stock in the same barn for three years.
About 4,000 villages have been burnt and razed to the ground in an attempt to depopulate the area.
Saddam launched Anfal in 1987, beginning the destruction of some four thousand Kurdish villages as he tried to depopulate the countryside.
Last Wednesday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced its decision to depopulate the high-risk region.
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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