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pop⋅u⋅late

  [pop-yuh-leyt]
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–verb (used with object), -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.
1. to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
2. to furnish with inhabitants, as by colonization; people.
Origin:
1570–80; < ML populātus, ptp. of populāre to inhabit. See people, -ate 1
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pop·u·late   (pŏp'yə-lāt')   
tr.v.   pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates
  1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people.
  2. To live in; inhabit: creatures that populate the ocean depths.

[Medieval Latin populāre, populāt-, from Latin populus, the people; see popular.]
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