(v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
(v. i.) To become dispeopled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, one is unable to totally depopulate a tumor without irreversibly damaging the normal tissues.
(2) And although in a few cases Pathfinder entailed the demolition of housing in genuinely blighted areas, and though there's no doubt that northern cities were depopulated from their mid-20th century heights, market correction was always the rationale.
(3) But I ended up unemployed.” He and his family arrived in the Teruel countryside thanks to the Cepaim Foundation’s New Paths programme , which helps bring immigrants to depopulated rural areas.
(4) A second wave of depopulation, possibly due to perivascular fibrosis, was evident at 13 weeks.
(5) The exodus is being led by young people, who are abandoning ageing towns and villages that were afflicted by economic decline and depopulation long before the disaster.
(6) The marrow depopulation was atrributed to decreased cell production, as the majority of the remaining cells showed little evidence of degeneration and the number of mitotic figures in the marrow of amprolium-treated lambs was considerably reduced as compared with the controls.
(7) The effectiveness of the lesion was attested by a massive neuronal depopulation in the lesioned areas.
(8) Visiedo is located in one of the emptiest reaches of Spain, the province of Teruel, part of the autonomous community of Aragon, which has the highest rate of rural depopulation in the country.
(9) The time variation of the pump current when the light is turned on suggests the rapid depopulation of some initially occupied state.
(10) He predicted that the employed would become so depopulated that national economies would be disrupted.
(11) The cerebellar changes, especially in the vermis and intermediate part, were characterized by selective degeneration and depopulation of Purkinje cells, and a spongy state of the cerebellar white matter, which was formed in splits in the intraperiod lines within the myelin sheath.
(12) For the purpose of our investigation, the farm was depopulated of swine and restocked with parasite-free, sentinel pigs confined in 3 groups exposed to increasing degrees of contact with rats.
(13) Japan’s polarised political scene, coupled with rising regional tensions and challenging domestic issues such as depopulation and the role of women, should generate ample material to cement manga’s place in the public discourse.
(14) The possible mechanisms of synkinesis include: imperfect regeneration due to axonal misdirection, demyelination, microglial scarring in the facial nucleus, neuron depopulation, multiple axon sprouting, and misdirection of regenerating axons via vertical anastomotic filaments.
(15) The kinetics of depopulation and repopulation of the solid transplantable rhabdomyosarcoma R1H in the rat was studied following irradiation with 5 Gy of 14 MeV neutrons.
(16) As early as the mid-1980s, Prince Charles advocated turning the depopulated streets of central Liverpool into farmland, something which seemed connected to his war against modern architecture around the same time; but not all urban farms or ex-industrial parks would please the prince architecturally.
(17) They are probably also the cells which are capable of regenerating the crypt after X-ray depopulation.
(18) However, although amyotrophy presumes a transsynaptic change in trophic function to have taken place in the peripheral neurone, neuronal depopulation--if one accepts it--cannot be other than functional.
(19) The analysis concludes that despite the fact several Native groups exploited, and in some cases co-resided in a similar ecological area, they suffered differential mortality and depopulation rates.
(20) His analysis illustrates and reviews the demographic movements in a district of which certain parts are on the way of depopulation, the medical practitioners who followed one another during the last century, their daily activities under circumstances totally different from ours, the means at their disposal in particular the therapeutical possibilities an overview of the popular medicines of that time and a short historical report about the health resort of San Bernardino.