unpeople

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of unperson

verb

1. (transitive)To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.

   “Let him bring millions infinite of men, Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece: Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.”

   “He shall have every day a several greeting, / Or I'll unpeople Egypt.”

   “This / ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with / continency.”

   “'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.”