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How to pronounce populate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dwell, inhabit, live
Type of be
Has types bivouac, board, camp, camp out, cohabit, domicile, domiciliate, encamp, tent, room, shack, shack up, tenant, live together, lodge, lodge in, neighbor, neighbour, nest, occupy, overpopulate, people, reside
Derivation population
Type Words
Type of fill up, make full, fill
Has types people
Derivation population


populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting.

Examples of populate

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Your wallet's URL and key will be used to pre-populate a form to file the claim.
From the techcrunch.com
We were sitting in one of the Olive Gardens that populate Florida's strip malls.
From the forbes.com
And only several dozen travellers seemed to populate the hall at any given time.
From the time.com
The software also has tools to automatically populate entire scenes with objects.
From the theepochtimes.com
We studied the shells of the giant tortoises that populate the Galapagos Islands.
From the stltoday.com
The government would populate pre-filled returns with information it already has.
From the forbes.com
The company does not disclose how many computers now populate its server farms.
From the economist.com
No wonder these sodden, salt-crusted figures populate some of the best fiction.
From the economist.com
Female programmers and engineers populate every department at every tech company.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
  • Fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
  • A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area. ...
  • To supply with inhabitants; to people; To live in; to inhabit; To fill initially empty items in a collection
  • (populated) When many people live in one place.
  • (populated) having living things in a place or area
  • (Populating (a database)) Adding entries to a database or filling in gaps.
  • To add content in the form of attribute values to an existing framework. Such frameworks include the database, table and form.
  • As a verb, means the process of populating a geographic area, as by procreation or immigration.