populate

To supply with inhabitants; to people.

To live in; to inhabit.

To increase in number; to breed.

computingTo fill initially empty items in a collection.

“John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.”

“Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.”

electronicsTo fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

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”

obsoletePopulous