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colonize
verb
(col-o-nize)
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
Synonyms:
colonise
,
Examples:
The British colonized the East Coast.
colonize
verb
(col-o-nize)
settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
Synonyms:
colonise
,
Antonyms:
decolonize
,
Examples:
Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century.
Words Related to
colonize
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recolonize
,
settle
,
colonise
,
invade
,
depopulate
,
subjugate
,
exterminate
,
repopulate
,
inhabit
,
reconquer
,
infest
,
conquer
,
christianize
,
extirpate
,
enslave
,
civilize
,
parasitize
,
assimilate
,
acculturate
,
civilise
,
urbanize
,
europeanize
,
emigrate
,
encroach
,
populate
,
expel
,
liberate
,
decolonise
,
fossilize
,
early american
,
decolonized
,
islamize
,
migrate
,
islamise
,
industrialize
,
metastasise
,
outbreed
,
reconquered
,
annihilate
,
balkanize
,
overpopulate
,
urbanise
,
infect
,
destroy
,
westernize
,
industrialise
,
putrefy
,
reinfect
,
translocate
,
infiltrate
,
overgrow
,
arabize
,
fertilize
,
overwinter
,
christianise
,
despoil
,
reoccupy
,
domesticate
,
hybridize
,
naturalise
,
weaponize
,
propagate
,
copulate
,
defoliate
,
valorize
,
reproduce
,
metastasize
,
coagulate
,
peopling
,
cultivate
,
ossify
,
militarize
,
homogenise
,
gentrify
,
militarise
,
regenerate
,
secularize
,
uproot
,
incubate
,
isolate
,
acidify
,
interbred
,
desiccate
,
secularise
,
reimagine
,
sovietize
,
ravage
,
hybridise
,
impoverish
,
vascularized
,
germinate
,
outcompete
,
repel
,
marginalize
,
secularised
,
devour
,
spacefaring
,
balkanise
,
demarcate
,
tyrannize
,
colonize
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