What part of speech is populate?

Populate can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. populate is a verb, present, 1st person singular of populate (infinitive).
  • 2. populate is a verb (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does populate mean?

Definitions

Adjective

populate - populous.

Verb

populate - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
populate - fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"

Examples of populate

#   Sentence  
1. verb Populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting.
2. verb The 1.25 million people who have been housed in stadiums and convention centers across Texas will begin to populate Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Galveston, and the surrounding areas.
3. verb Were we to populate the corpus with unnatural sentences or inaccurate translations, this resource wouldn't be of much use, now would it?
4. verb If we humans want to survive for hundreds of thousands of millions of years, we must ultimately populate other planets.
Sentence  
verb
Populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting.
The 1.25 million people who have been housed in stadiums and convention centers across Texas will begin to populate Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Galveston, and the surrounding areas.
Were we to populate the corpus with unnatural sentences or inaccurate translations, this resource wouldn't be of much use, now would it?
If we humans want to survive for hundreds of thousands of millions of years, we must ultimately populate other planets.

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