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UK
/kˈɒlənˌaɪz/
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VERB
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settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century -
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
The British colonized the East Coast
How To Use colonise In A Sentence
- This tolerance has practical application in bioremediation and in efforts to colonize polluted sites.
- Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
- And it's always easier for a species to go extinct than to recolonise. Times, Sunday Times
- Mugabe has blamed his country's woes on former coloniser Britain and other Western nations. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Mugabe is the best living African on the continent, with a real programme to decolonise Africa in real terms. Mugabe Loses Honorary Degree From UMass - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
- Several species of fungi that colonize corn produce mycotoxins, however not all isolates of a toxigenic species produce mycotoxins and isolates capable of producing a mycotoxin do not always synthesize the toxin.
- With luck, we'll find definitive proof that Solutrean peoples came over from Europe, built the pyramid, and colonized the New World," says Coe. Pyramid Found in New England
- She said: ‘The more the BBC colonises that space the harder it will be for the commercial players to compete.’
- It is morally wrong for western powers to recolonise territory in this way, and their soldiers should refuse to engage in a war of recolonisation.
- They may arise from dormant seeds, or colonise by windblown seeds.
