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populate

 
Verb populate has 2 senses
  1. dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate - make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
    --1 is one way to be
    Derived form: noun population1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. people, populate - fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
    --2 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
    Derived form: noun population5
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
popularity synonym popularization popularize popularized popularizer popularly popularness populars populate populated populated area populated density populates population population commission population control population density

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