Populate vs Repopulate - What's the difference?
populate | repopulate |
To supply with inhabitants; to people.
To live in; to inhabit.
To fill initially empty items in a collection.
To populate again, breed among a group in order to keep the population up.
To reintroduce a species into (an area).
As verbs the difference between populate and repopulate
is that populate is to supply with inhabitants; to people while repopulate is to populate again, breed among a group in order to keep the population up.As an adjective populate
is (obsolete) populous.populate
English
Verb
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate .
