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减绝居民;减少人口

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dispeople \Dis*peo"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispeopled}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Dispeopling}.] [Pref. dis- + people: cf. F.
   d['e]peupler.]
   To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.

         Leave the land dispeopled and desolate.  --Sir T. More.

         A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea
         rivers.                                  --Milton.