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Meanings of populate in English

Portuguese
viver
Catalan
residir
Spanish
habitar

Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.

viver

People.

Usage of populate in English
1
Light showers will populate the region, without really staying for long periods.
The South African
2
To populate their new Instagram page with the most stunning images captured.
News.com.au
3
It will then populate those roads with virtual pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.
BBC
4
Gruen skillfully humanizes midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book.
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5
This certainly is a new method to populate our colonies with capitalists.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
6
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.
American Gods
7
Specifically, we observed an increase in their ability to populate the low-porosity scaffolds.
Pubmed
8
It is really more about India than the characters who populate its pages.
The Irish Times
9
In the dream I populate the space around me with words.
The ministry of pain
10
In the U.S., a number of indie films continued to populate drive-in theaters.
Reuters
11
As many as we could, to populate the City of Sand.
Eve
12
You are now going to want players to populate your clan.
The South African
13
Astronomers estimate that as many as a hundred billion planets populate the galaxy.
BBC
14
He blames the larger talent agencies, whose acts populate those shows.
The Guardian
15
PillPack is simpler: a few clicks and the app can auto-populate your meds.
Wired
16
After finding an office, the next step is to populate it.
The Irish Times
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Translations for populate
Populate through the time
Populate across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common