Dictionary entry

Dispeople

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐peo″ple (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Dispeopled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dispeopling (?).] [Pref. dis- + people: cf. F. dépeupler.] To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.

Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More.

A certain island long before dispeopled... by sea rivers. Milton.