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populate verb [ ˈpɒpjʊleɪt ]

• form the population of (a place).
• "the island is populated by scarcely 40,000 people"
Similar: inhabit, live/reside in, occupy, people, dwell in,
Origin: late 16th century: from medieval Latin populat- ‘supplied with people’, from the verb populare, from populus ‘people’.

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