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unpeople

[ uhn-pee-puhl ]

verb (used with object)

unpeopled, unpeopling.
  1. to deprive of people; person; depopulate.


unpeople

/ ÊŒ²Ôˈ±è¾±Ë±èÉ™±ô /

verb

  1. tr to empty of people
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of unpeople1

First recorded in 1525–35; un- 2 + people
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Example Sentences

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In the decades since, there has been some slow repatriation, but tens of thousands of Faili remain caught, unpeople welcome nowhere.

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There are people here, but they are in the process of becoming unpeople.

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Trump’s liberal apologists won’t cry for them, or even acknowledge their existence: they are, apparently, unpeople, rather than kids clutching teddy bears as western-backed bombs rain on their heads.

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"We are illegitimate people, unpeople. Make us legitimate and we'll show our faces."

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This, or rather, these Scourges, for they are very numerous, are Quacks; of which there are two Species: The Mountebanks or travelling Quacks, and those pretended Physicians in Villages and Country-Places, both male and female, known in Swisserland by the Name of Conjurers, and who very effectually unpeople it.

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