intransitive verb. To form or establish a colony or colonies in.

intransitive verb. To migrate to and settle in; occupy as a colony.

intransitive verb. To resettle or confine (persons) in or as if in a colony.

intransitive verb. To subjugate (a population) to or as if to a colonial government.

intransitive verb. To form or establish a colony.

intransitive verb. To settle in a colony or colonies.

To plant or establish a colony in; occupy with a colony or colonies: as, England colonized Australia.

To form a colony of; establish in a new settlement; settle together as a body: as, to colonize the surplus population; to colonize laborers in a mining region.

To migrate to and settle in, especially as the first or the principal inhabitants; occupy as a colony: as, English Puritans colonized New England.

To place or settle for the time being in a voting-precinct so as to be able to vote at an election: as, to colonize voters.

To form a colony; congregate in a new settlement: as, to colonize in India.

Also colonise.

intransitive verb. To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony.

transitive verb. To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.

verb. Alternative spelling of colonise.

verb. settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)

verb. settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world

"Like there is no inherent reason, nor drive to 'colonize' the bottom of the Marianne Trench in the Pacific."

colonial  colonialism  colonist  colony  

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