depopulate synonyms

depopulate

v.

kill, massacre, slaughter, remove the inhabitants from, resettle, evict, oust, exile, eradicate the population of, deprive of inhabitants, commit genocide, commit mass murder, eliminate, wipe out; see also banish 1, kill 1.

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