despovoar
Portuguese, verb/des.po.voˈa(ʁ)/
despovoar is spelled D-E-S-P-O-V-O-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Despovoar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to unpopulate, depopulate; to fully or partially rid a place of people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar desabitado”.
What does despovoar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unpopulate, depopulate; to fully or partially rid a place of people
- 2
to empty, to remove what occupies a given space
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar desabitado
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of despovoar
- despovoo first-person present singular
- despovoei first-person preterite singular
- despovoado participle past
- despovoares infinitive second-person singular
- despovoarmos first-person infinitive plural
- despovoardes infinitive plural second-person
- despovoarem infinitive plural third-person
- despovoando gerund
- despovoados masculine participle past
- despovoada feminine participle past
- despovoadas feminine participle past
- despovôo Brazil first-person indicative
- despovoas indicative present second-person
- despovoa indicative present singular
- despovoamos first-person indicative plural
- despovoais indicative plural present
- despovoam indicative plural present
- despovoava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce despovoar?
- Brazil /des.po.voˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.po.voˈa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is despovoar in Portuguese?
despovoar appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).