repeople
verb [ T ] literary (also re-people) uk/ˌriːˈpiː.pəl/
重新迁入;回归
to go and live in a place again, or to encourage or cause people to do this
Timoleon wrote to the Corinthians, requesting that they send a colony out of Greece to repeople Syracuse.
The Bible tells us that Noah came forth from the ark to re-people the earth. 圣经告诉我们，挪亚从方舟里出来，要在地球上重新安置人类。
Synonym: repopulate
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- He made a treaty to end the war and sought to re-people the deserted towns and reorganize the administrative system of the state.
- At the end of the story, the blazing world is destroyed, leaving only a single man and woman to re-people the earth.
- He believed it was a glorious action to repeople the state.
- We need to re-people our public spaces, and one way of doing that is removing graffiti and hazards.