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• town: The revered memory and names of their depopulated towns and villages still line their hearts and pages of history.

• city: It was a poor and largely depopulated city of ruins, and the inhabitants continued to flee in the face of the Ottoman threat.

• land: The Cistercians, for example, depopulated land to make room for their abbey at Jervaulx in North Yorkshire in the 12th century.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: The island of Mauritius a little time before had been almost depopulated.

• totally: The Black Death hit southeast Wales hard, with certain manors almost totally depopulated.

• nearly: Why the Asiatic plague that nearly depopulated London a couple of centuries ago.

• largely: It was a poor and largely depopulated city of ruins, and the inhabitants continued to flee in the face of the Ottoman threat.

• so: Perhaps it was so depopulated in the plague that it wasn't viable anymore.

• increasingly: Once prosperous for the flour, wood and furniture it produced from the chestnut tree, the area is now becoming increasingly depopulated.