colonize
About 0.57 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
- verb To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
- verb To begin a colony or colonies.
- verb To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
Similar words
settle colonise recolonize colonialize colonialise neo-colonize neocolonialize continentalize locate install
Often followed by
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Word family
colonise colonised colonises colonising colonized colonizes colonizing
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