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populates

verb

Meaning

  1. To supply with inhabitants; to people.
  2. To live in; to inhabit.
  3. To increase in number; to breed.
  4. To fill initially empty items in a collection.
  5. To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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