POP'ULATE, verb intransitive [Latin populus.] To breed people; to propagate. When there be great shoals of people which go on to populate POP'ULATE, verb transitive To people; to furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase, or by immigration or colonization. POPULATE, for populous, is not now in use.
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