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colonize Definition

colo·nize (kälə nīz′)

transitive verb -·nized′, -·niz′·ing

  1. to found or establish a colony or colonies in
  2. to settle (persons) in a colony
  3. ☆ to place (voters) illegally in (a district) so as to influence an election

intransitive verb

  1. to found or establish a colony or colonies
  2. to settle in a colony

colonize Related Forms
col′o·ni·za·tion noun colo·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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