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verb
[with object] form the population of (a town, area, or country):the island is populated by scarcely 40,000 people (as adjective, with submodifier populated)a densely populated area cause people to settle in (an area or place):Finland pursues a policy designed to populate its Russian borders fill or be present in (a place, environment, or domain):the spirit of the book and the characters who populate its pages add data to a previously empty section of (an electronic form, document, etc.):use scripts to populate the graph with data
