D defs.my
Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Populate

/päp'-yəl-ātˌ/ · Pop·u·late · IPA /ˈpɑ.pjəˌleɪt/
01 a. Populous.
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    Populous.[Obs.]
02 v. t. To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
imp. & p. p. Populated; p. pr. & vb. n. Populating
  1. 1.
    To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
03 v. i. To propagate.
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    To propagate.[Obs.]
    “Great shoals of people which go on to populate.” Bacon.