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POPULATE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does populate mean?

• POPULATE (verb)
The verb POPULATE has 2 senses:

1. furnish with people
2. fill with people or supply with inhabitants

Familiarity information: POPULATE used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• POPULATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Furnish with people

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

populate; people

Context example:

The plains are sparsely populated

Hypernyms (to "populate" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live (inhabit or live in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "populate"):

overpopulate (cause to have too great a population)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

populate ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Fill with people or supply with inhabitants

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

people; populate

Context examples:

people a room / The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country

Hypernyms (to "populate" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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