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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   colonize

   • IPA[ˈkäləˌnīz]

   美式

   • v.
     (of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it；come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area)

   • verb: colonize, 3rd person present: colonizes, gerund or present participle: colonizing, past tense: colonized, past participle: colonized

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. (of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy
   • ▪ come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area) they sought to discredit the peoples they were colonizing
   • ▪ appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use a small town in a part of the Hudson Valley fast being colonized by weekenders
   • ▪ (of a plant or animal) establish itself in (an area) mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces insect borers colonize in rotted shoreline deadfalls
3. • 更多解釋

   colonize

   • IPA[ˈkɒlənʌɪz]

   英式

   • v.
     send settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it: the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy

   Oxford Dictionary