dispelled

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A dreadful solitude surrounded our steps; the land was quite dispeopled, there was no smoke of fires, and save for a single boat of merchants on the second day, we met no travellers.

From Master of Ballantrae by Stevenson, Robert Louis

M. de Calonne had said, "the state was impoverished by victories, and the kingdom dispeopled through intolerance."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert

By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

He moved slowly on through the thick darkness; and turning his back on the city, passed, careless whither he strayed, into the streets of the desolate and dispeopled suburbs.

From Antonina by Collins, Wilkie

How Mars and Pallas wept to see the Day When Athens by a Plague dispeopled lay.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel