depopulate英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

动词 v.

To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc. transitive

— Where is this viper That would depopulate the city and Be every man himself?
To remove the components from a circuit board. transitive
To become depopulated, to lose its population. intransitive

— […] the country […] has been rapidly depopulating, and utterly draining of its vital resources, till the unhappy population have sunk to the lowest depth of misery.

形容词 adj.

Depopulated (sense 1). not-comparable,obsolete

— And ſo in that realme were continually two kynges, vntil the kynge of Mede had depopulate the country, and brought the people in captiuite to the citie of Babylon: […]
Barren, devoid of inhabitants; utterly destroyed, devastated . not-comparable,obsolete

— A world it was to see […] his daily peregrinacion in the desert, felles and craggy mountains of that bareine vnfertile and depopulate countrey.

词形变化

depopulates present,singular,third-person depopulating participle,present depopulated participle,past depopulated past

词汇关系

衍生词

depopulative depopulacy

词源

词源 1

First attested in 1531; borrowed from Latin dēpopulātus, perfect active participle of dēpopulor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Compare depeople, French dépeupler, Italian spopolare, Spanish despoblar, Portuguese despovoar and Romanian despopora; by surface analysis, de- + populate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

词源 2

First attested in 1531; borrowed from Latin dēpopulātus, perfect active participle of dēpopulor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Compare depeople, French dépeupler, Italian spopolare, Spanish despoblar, Portuguese despovoar and Romanian despopora; by surface analysis, de- + populate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.