1. [verb] (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
2. [verb] (intransitive) To live in; to inhabit.
3. [verb] (computing) (transitive/intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
4. [adjective] (obsolete) populous
5. [verb] 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'.
6. [verb] Fill with inhabitants; 'populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting'.
