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unpeople

[uhn-pee-puhl]

verb (used with object), -pled, -pling.

to deprive of people; depopulate.

Origin:
1525–35; un-² + people

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noun

a public figure, especially in a totalitarian country, who, for political or ideological reasons, is not recognized or mentioned in government publications or records or in the news media.

a person accorded no recognition or consideration by another or by a specific group.

Origin:
un-¹ + person; introduced in George Orwell's novel 1984 (1949)

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unpeople (ʌnˈpiːp^əl)

—vb
	(tr) to empty of people

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"Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no scepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet."

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