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Populate

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Verb

1. dwell, inhabit, live, populate

inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of

Example Sentences:
'People lived in Africa millions of years ago'
'The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted'
'this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean'
'deer are populating the woods'

2. populate

fill with inhabitants

Example Sentences:
'populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Populate

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verb (transitive)
1. (often passive)
to live in; inhabit
2. 
to provide a population for; colonize or people

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Populate

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈpopuˌlated or ˈpopuˌlating
1. 
to be or become the inhabitants of; inhabit
2. 
to supply with inhabitants; people

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Populate

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tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates
1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization.
2. To live in; inhabit: creatures that populate the ocean depths.
3. Computers To fill (an empty field or array) with data.
4. Chemistry To fill (an electron shell of an atom) with electrons.

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