To cause someone to leave or abandon a place where they were living; to depopulate an area.
From dis- (remove or reverse) + inhabit (from in- + habit, to dwell). Emerged in English by the 16th century.
Wars, famines, and environmental disasters can disinhabit entire regions—when people leave, it can take generations for an area to recover and be populated again!
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