Depeoples

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To remove or eliminate the inhabitants from a region, area, or territory
2. To cause a place to lose its population through expulsion, relocation, or other means
3. To strip a location of its residents or make it empty of people

Etymology: "Depeoples" is the third-person singular form of "depeople," a verb meaning to reduce the population of a place. The verb is formed from the prefix "de-" and the noun "people." The prefix "de-" comes from Latin and typically signals removal or reversal, so "depeople" literally means to take people away from a place, much as "defrost" takes frost away.