depopulate

1. V-T To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there. 使(某地)人口減少

The famine threatened to depopulate the continent. 飢荒威脇著該大陸人口數(shù)量。

2. depopulatedADJ

...a small, rural, and depopulated part of the south-west. ...西南部一個人菸稀少的鄕下小地方。