Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) populate, dwell, live, inhabit (be an inhabitant of or reside in) "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"
S: (v) populate (fill with inhabitants) "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
S: (v) fill, fill up, make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense) "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"
S: (v) change, alter, modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
W: (n) population [Related to: populate] (the act of populating (causing to live in a place)) "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"