present participle
Filling a place with people or animals.
New families are populating the valley.
Wolves are slowly populating the restored forest.
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How to pronounce populating
verbB2
PAHPyuhlaydihng
/ˈpʰɑp.jəˌleɪ.ɾɪŋ/
4 syllables · Stress the first syllable.
Form of populate
Filling a place with people or animals.
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present participle
Putting information into a form, database, or computer system.
She is populating the database with customer records.
We spent the morning populating the online form.