how to pronounce depopulate

/ˌdiːˈpɒp.jə.lɛɪt/

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depopulate is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of depopulate in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… on blackbox depopulate in town ie people …”

meanings of depopulate

verb:

To become depopulated, to lose its population.
To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
To remove the components from a circuit board.

adjective:

Depopulated.

depopulate frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word depopulate occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics depopulate can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that depopulate can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) life, nature, and living environment;