Meaning

3 senses

  1. To populate again; to breed among a group in order to keep the population up.

  2. (transitive)To reintroduce a species into (an area).

  3. To fill with data again; to refresh.

    to repopulate a grid

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Can we repopulate an area after a bushfire?

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  2. Lukas and Rima will repopulate the new world.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

repopulates, repopulating, repopulated, repopulated
Base formrepopulate · to repopulate
3rd person singularrepopulates
Present participlerepopulating
Past simplerepopulated
Past participlerepopulated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrepopulate
he, she, itrepopulates

Past simpleLesson

all personsrepopulated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave repopulated
he, she, ithas repopulated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill repopulate

Word family

2 related words
Derivedrepopulationrepopulator

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
replicatereplyB1reporeportB1reportedlyreporterA1
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