populate (populates 3rd person present) (populating present participle) (populated past tense & past participle )
1 verb If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers.
(=inhabit)
Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks. be V-ed
...native Sindhis, who populate the surrounding villages. V n
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populated adj adv ADJ
The southeast is the most densely populated area...
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-populated comb in adj
Shelling from federal army tanks razed half the houses in the Croat-populated part of Glina.
2 verb To populate an area means to cause people to live there.
Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people. V n with n