populate

1. V-T If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers. 聚居; 棲息

Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks. 在所有這一切之前，該島聚居著土著美洲阿拉瓦克人。

2. populatedADJ 聚居了的; 棲息了的[adv ADJ]

The southeast is the most densely populated area. 東南部是最稠密的居住區(qū)。

3. V-T To populate an area means to cause people to live there. 使聚居

Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people. 后繼政權(quán)吞并了這個(gè)地區(qū)并讓低地居民聚居于此。