depopulate Copy link Outline 1. văcuēfăcio, fēci, etc. 3 (rare in this sense)2. vasto, 13. dēsōlo, 14. pŏpŭlor, dēpŏpŭlor, 1 (to lay waste a country with fire and sword) • depopulate: 1. văcuēfăcio, fēci, etc. 3 (rare in this sense): he d.d the island of Scyrus, Scyrum vacuefecit, which is immediately explained, "sessores veteres urbe insulaque ejecit," Nep. Cim. 5. 2. vasto, 1: more precisely, civibus fines v., Hirt.; cultoribus v., Virg. (Less freq. are devasto, pervasto, intens.) 3. dēsōlo, 1: v. to desolate. 4. pŏpŭlor, dēpŏpŭlor, 1 (to lay waste a country with fire and sword): v. to ravage, waste (lay). Phr.: the city was being d.d by death, urbs funeribus exhauriebatur, Liv.: to prevent the country from being d.d, *ne regio illa vacua foret incolis.