How to pronounce “colonize”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
• (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
• (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
• (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.

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