柯林斯詞典depopulate /d??p?pj??le?t/ (depopulating,depopulated,depopulates) 1. V-T To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there. 使(某地)人口減少 The famine threatened to depopulate the continent. 饑荒威脅著該大陸人口數(shù)量。2. depopulatedADJ ...a small, rural, and depopulated part of the south-west. ...西南部一個(gè)人煙稀少的鄉(xiāng)下小地方。 返回 depopulate劍橋詞典to cause a country or area to have fewer people living in it 使人口減少,使居民減少 The region was depopulated by disease /famine /war . 該地區(qū)的人口因疾?。囸I/戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)而減少。 返回 depopulate