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10 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb reduce in population
originFirst attested in 1531; borrowed from Latin dēpopulātus, perfect active participle of dēpopulor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Compare depeople, French dépeupler, Italian spopolare, Spanish despoblar, Portuguese despovoar and Romanian despopora; by surface analysis, de- + populate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- populated 14
- lappeted 13
- upleaped 13
- outleaped 12
- populate 12
- peopled 12
- pupated 12
- toppled 12
- upleapt 11
- dapple 11
- lapped 11
- lopped 11