To depopulate a country, terram vacuefacere; incolas terra ejicere (to remove the inhabitants; Vid: Nep., Cim., 2, 5): vastare; devastare; pervastare (to lay waste; make uninhabitable for men; devastare and pervastare, to make so utterly): populari; depopulari; perpopulari (to lay waste by an army, so as to drive away the inhabitants, and destroy whatever can afford them subsistence, especially by robbery and plunder): to depopulate and lay waste by fire and sword, ferro ignique, or igni ferroque vastare; ferro flammisque pervastare.