| Main Entry: | populate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | supply with inhabitants |
Synonyms: |
colonize, inhabit, live, occupy, people, settle |
| Main Entry: | inhabit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take up residence in |
Synonyms: |
abide, crash, dwell, indwell, live, locate, lodge, make one's home, occupy, park, people, perch, populate, possess, reside, roost, settle, squat, stay, tenant |
Antonyms: |
depart, leave, move, vacate |
| Main Entry: | multiply |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase; reproduce |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, add, aggrandize, aggregate, augment, boost, breed, build up, compound, cube, double, enlarge, expand, extend, generate, heighten, magnify, manifold, mount, populate, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, raise, repeat, rise, spread, square |
Antonyms: |
decrease, divide, lessen, reduce |
| Main Entry: | occupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inhabited; in use |
Synonyms: |
busy, engaged, full, leased, lived-in, peopled, populated, populous, rented, settled, taken, unavailable, utilized |
| Notes: | occupied means in use or seized and controlled as by military invasion; preoccupied means deeply absorbed in thought or having compulsive concern with something |
Antonyms: |
empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant |
| Main Entry: | occupy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reside; use |
Synonyms: |
be established, be in command, be in residence, cover, dwell, ensconce, establish, fill, hold, inhabit, involve, keep, live in, maintain, own, people, permeate, pervade, populate, possess, remain, sit, stay, take up, tenant, utilize |
Antonyms: |
not use |
| Main Entry: | populous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | packed with inhabitants |
Synonyms: |
crawling, crowded, dense, heavily populated, jammed, legion, many, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, numerous, occupied, overpopulated, peopled, populated, settled, several, swarming, teeming, thick, thronged, various, voluminous |
Antonyms: |
deserted |
| Main Entry: | reside |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | live or exist in |
Synonyms: |
abide, be intrinsic to, be vested, bide, consist, continue, crash*, dig*, dwell, endure, hang one's hat, inhabit, inhere, lie, locate, lodge, nest, occupy, park*, people, perch, populate, remain, rest with, roost, settle, sojourn, squat, stay, take up residence, tenant |
| Main Entry: | thick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crowded, packed |
Synonyms: |
abundant, brimming, bristling, bursting, chock-full, close, compact, compressed, concentrated, condensed, considerable, covered, crammed, crawling with, dense, frequent, full, great, heaped, impenetrable, impervious, inspissated, like sardines, localized, multitudinous, numerous, populated, populous, profuse, rank, replete, several, solid, swarming, teeming, tight |
Antonyms: |
thin, uncrowded |
| Main Entry: | inhabited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | occupied |
Synonyms: |
colonized, developed, lived in, owned, peopled, pioneered, populated, populous, possessed, rented, settled, tenanted |