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Populates

To supply with inhabitants; to people.

📖 Definitions of "Populates"

verb
  1. 1

    To supply with inhabitants; to people.

  2. 2

    To live in; to inhabit.

  3. 3

    To increase in number; to breed.

  4. 4

    To fill initially empty items in a collection.

    "Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid."

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Populates"

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WordDefinition
inhabitverb(transitive) To live or reside in.
peopleverb(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
resideverbTo dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
shackverbTo live (in or with); to shack up.
liveverb(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
dwellverb(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
completesverb(transitive) To make whole or entire.
displaysverb(transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
fillsverb(transitive, ergative) To make full
fulfilsverbBritish standard spelling of fulfill.
generatesverb(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
introducesverb(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
showsverb(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
populationnounThe people living within a political or geographical boundary.
populationsnounThe people living within a political or geographical boundary.
repopulateverbTo populate again; to breed among a group in order to keep the population up.
populousHaving a large population.
peoplingnoun(countable, collective) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
repopulationnounThe act of repopulating, especially with a species that might otherwise die out in an area.
spawnsnounThe numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

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