Topic: GOVERNMENT
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col‧o‧nize also colonise British English
[transitive]
[transitive]1PG to establish political control over an area or over another country, and send your citizens there to settle [↪ colony]
2 if animals or plants colonize an area, large numbers of them start to live there : a dead tree that has been colonized by ants
a dead tree that has been colonized by ants —colonizer noun [countable]
noun [countable] —colonization noun [uncountable]
noun [uncountable]