depeopling
/diːˈpipəlɪŋ/
verb
- The act of reducing or removing the population of a place; present participle of depeople.
- They are depeopling the neighborhood through forced evictions.
- The government is depeopling the island by relocating residents.
- Disease is depeopling the countryside at an alarming rate.
noun
- The process or result of a population being reduced or removed.
- Urban depeopling is a concern for many small towns.
- The depeopling of the region took decades.
- Historians study the depeopling caused by the famine.
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