populate

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Synonyms: populace, copulate, postulate, modulate, popular, vapulate, ovulate, peculate, cupulate, rosulate, oculate

Antonyms: populace, copulate, postulate, modulate, popular, vapulate, ovulate, peculate, cupulate, rosulate, oculate

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Verb

1. {{senseid|en|supply with inhabitants}}{{lb|en|transitive}} To [[supply]] with [[inhabitant]]s; to [[people]].
2. {{senseid|en|inhabit}}{{lb|en|transitive}} To [[live]] in; to [[inhabit]].
3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To increase in number; to [[breed]].
4. {{lb|en|computing|ambitransitive}} To [[fill]] [[initialise|initially]] [[empty]] [[item]]s in a [[collection]].
5. {{lb|en|electronics}} To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a [[circuit board]] or similar.

Adjective

1. {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[populous]]

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