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How to pronounce colonize in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms colonise
Type of locate, settle
Derivation colonization, colony


The British colonized the East Coast.
Type Words
Synonyms colonise
Type of annex
Derivation colonization, colonizer, colony


Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century.

Examples of colonize

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Once established, zebra mussels colonize an area, reproducing in great numbers.
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By shutting those cells down, B. fragilis gets a free pass to colonize the gut.
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One Norway maple can eventually colonize many areas of otherwise native woodland.
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If the cells cannot adhere and colonize, then they wash out of the urinary tract.
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The wind-dispersed seeds then land on the burned soil and colonize the terrain.
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Corals rapidly colonize and grow at accelerated rates on these coated structures.
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The mutants that did colonize in mice also had lower levels of bacteria, he says.
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His ancestors came from Torre del Greco, Italy, and left to help colonize Algeria.
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But nature can hardly wait to colonize the bare ground you've left in between.
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  • Settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
  • (colonized) inhabited by colonists
  • (colonization) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
  • Colonization, (or Colonisation in British English), occurs whenever any one or more species populate an area. The term, which is derived from the Latin colere, "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," originally related to humans. ...
  • (Colonized) In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. ...
  • (Colonization (series)) Colonization is a trilogy of books written by Harry Turtledove. It is a continuation of the situation set up in the Worldwar four-book series, projecting the situation between humanity and the Race (the bipedal lizardlike invaders and settlers from Worldwar) nearly twenty ...
  • (Colonization (video game)) Sid Meier's Colonization is a computer game by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier released by Microprose in 1994. It is a turn-based strategy game themed on the early European colonization of the New World, starting in 1492 and lasting until 1850. ...
  • Alternative spelling of colonise
  • (Colonized) The presence of bacteria on the surface or in the tissue of a wound without indications of infection such as purulent exudate, foul odor, or surrounding inflammation. All Stage II, III, and IV pressure ulcers are colonized.