- depopulated - having lost inhabitants as by war or disease; "the 15th century plagues left vast areas of Europe depopulated"
Antonym: inhabited (indirect, via uninhabited)
- depopulate, desolate - reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
--1 is one way to shrink, reduce
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun depopulation1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something