populate has definitions from the field of housing
1
[ verb ] (housing) make one's home or live in

Examples

"There are only 250,000 people in Iceland" "I live in a 200-year old house" "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted" "The plains are sparsely populated"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit_world of the entities which previously populated it .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

What had once been a widespread family - at one time , she knew , there were enough Packards to populate an entire county - had now narrowed_down to the two boys , Abel and Mark .

2
[ verb ] fill with people or supply with inhabitants

Synonyms

people

Examples

"people a room" "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"

Related terms

fill people population

*