depopulate in the PONS Dictionary

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It was established in 1895, and was automated and depopulated in 1973.
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Only a third of the villagers survived; some neighbouring villages were depopulated completely.
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This is evident in that of all communities in shrinking rust-belt cities, the working-class neighborhoods tend to depopulate the quickest.
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Despite large urban centers, population has been depopulating for almost two decades.
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The town depopulated after the arsenic factory closed.
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In 1950 the village was depopulated completely, being a part of the new restricted border area.
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According to some contemporary accounts, high taxes had depopulated large tracts of the countryside, allowing only one-sixteenth of the cultivable land to be cultivated.
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The population had declined to 140 by 1966 due to a decline in fish stocks and the community was depopulated in 1967.
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The island was then depopulated and its people dispersed.
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Barely thirty years later, it was decided that it was no longer economically viable and the settlement was mostly depopulated by 1998.
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