colonize
colonize
Definition
colo·nize (käl′ə nīz′)
transitive verb -·nized′, -·niz′·ing
- to found or establish a colony or colonies in
- to settle (persons) in a colony
- ☆ to place (voters) illegally in (a district) so as to influence an election
intransitive verb
- to found or establish a colony or colonies
- to settle in a colony
col′o·ni·za′·tion noun
col′o·niz′er noun
colonize
Synonyms
colonize
v.
colonize
Usage Examples
Object
- planet: He had been picked by the planet's leaders to help colonize an uninhabited planet.
- nation: They also employed themselves as the sole butchers who perfected their continuous criminal adventures, intentions and ambitions against tens of colonized nations.
- land: What followed in Ireland of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries was a change from acquiring lordship over men to colonizing land.
- society: Rather, its network must actively colonize the society of such resisters just as its network infiltrates societies of consumers or of subsistence farmers.
- country: Coming from a formerly colonized country, I feel very strongly for the stories that Holloway narrated earlier during his talk.
- space: Humanists must colonize the new space along with the rest of the teeming multitude that throngs the Internet Fair.
Subject
- bacterium: Beside these obvious effects, plants are often colonized by endophytic bacteria not showing any effect at all.
Preposition: by
- bacterium: Beside these obvious effects, plants are often colonized by endophytic bacteria not showing any effect at all.
Modifying Another Word
- rapidly: Other plants, typical of waste ground in general, will also rapidly colonize bare patches on the dunes.
- first: A new community of plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms has largely replaced the earliest pioneer species which first colonized the bare ground.
- formerly: Coming from a formerly colonized country, I feel very strongly for the stories that Holloway narrated earlier during his talk.
- early: However, seeds of some non-forest early colonizing species are not adapted to dispersal by a particular agent.
- never: Children in need oppression by colonizing never lived without.
- then: England then colonized Australia, sending out fleets of settlers.
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