· be an inhabitant of or reside in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
Synonym(s): dwell, live, inhabit
Hypernym(s): be
· fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
Hypernym(s): fill, fill_up, make_full