populate

Verb

• fill with inhabitants
  • populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting
    

• inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
  • 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dwell , live , inhabit