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1. Oxford Dictionary

   colonize

   • IPA[ˈkɒlənʌɪz]

   英式

   • v.
     send settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it；settle among and establish 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. send settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy
   • ▪ settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area) they sought to discredit the peoples they were colonizing an organization seeking to protect the rights of the newly colonized
   • ▪ 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