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to colonize
01
to establish control over an area or people, often by settling and exploiting it
Transitive: to colonize an area
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
colonize
3rd person singular
colonizes
Present participle
colonizing
Past simple
colonized
Past participle
colonized
Examples
European powers sought to colonize distant lands during the Age of Exploration.
Lexical Tree
colonized
colonizer
decolonize
colonize
colon
