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English Dictionary: populate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
populate
v
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): populate, dwell, live, inhabit
  2. fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Populate \Pop"u*late\, a. [L. populus people. See {People}.]
      Populous. [Obs.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Populated}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Populating}.]
      To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by
      immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to
      people.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Populate \Pop"u*late\, v. i.
      To propagate. [Obs.]
  
               Great shoals of people which go on to populate.
                                                                              --Bacon.
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