depopulate in English

verb
1
substantially reduce the population of (an area).
the disease could depopulate a city the size of New Haven

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1. 14 The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.

2. 26 Was it God’s will for men to be transferred by death to some heaven or afterworld and thus depopulate the paradise earth?