depopulate

1. V-T To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there. 使(某地)人口减少

The famine threatened to depopulate the continent. 饥荒威胁着该大陆人口数量。

2. depopulatedADJ

...a small, rural, and depopulated part of the south-west. ...西南部一个人烟稀少的乡下小地方。