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col·o·nize
 colonize
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- pronunciation:
- ko
l
naIz
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verb |
| inflections: |
colonizes, colonizing, colonized |
| definition: |
When a country colonizes a foreign land, they start to rule that land, and people from the ruling country come to run the government there or make a living there.
The British began to colonize America in the seventeenth century. |
| related words: |
occupy, people |
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| derivations: |
colonization (n.), colonizer (n.) |
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