repopulate

re- +‎ populate

repopulate (third-person singular simple present repopulates, present participle repopulating, simple past and past participle repopulated)

1. To populate again; to breed among a group in order to keep the population up.
2. (transitive) To reintroduce a species into (an area).
3. (computing) To fill with data again; to refresh.

   to repopulate a grid

• repopulation