populate
popu|late /p'ɒpjʊleɪt/ (populates populating populated)
1 [VERB] be V-ed, V n
If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers.
Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks.
...native Sindhis, who populate the surrounding villages.
= inhabit
● populated [ADJ] adv ADJ
The southeast is the most densely populated area...
● -populated [COMB in ADJ]
Shelling from federal army tanks razed half the houses in the Croat-populated part of Glina.
2 [VERB] V n with n
To populate an area means to cause people to live there.
Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people.
1 [VERB] be V-ed, V n
If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers.
Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks.
...native Sindhis, who populate the surrounding villages.
= inhabit
● populated [ADJ] adv ADJ
The southeast is the most densely populated area...
● -populated [COMB in ADJ]
Shelling from federal army tanks razed half the houses in the Croat-populated part of Glina.
2 [VERB] V n with n
To populate an area means to cause people to live there.
Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people.