to colonize

Examples

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• After they colonize Mars, Med-Ex is gone.

  Sanctuary Population One (2018)

• What they do is they send out two different groups of people to colonize two different planets.

  cari can read

• So are we going to Mars to colonize or are we going just to explore?

• It's whatever urge it takes for you to colonize a planet.

• And the human beings decide, of course, that they should be able to just kind of like colonize the land.

• Do you think we will colonize Mars or the Moon in my lifetime?

• The Spaniards continued to colonize what is now Mexico.

  Lady of Guadalupe (2020)

• People hate on SpaceX for trying to get to Mars, and they say, why are you so focused on colonizing another planet?

  Julian Dorey

• By the late eighteenth century, Spain had colonized North America from California to the Texas coast.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The Spaniards continued to colonize what is now Mexico.

Synonyms

S

to settle

vsto colonize

463 2.5

To live in a place, often for a long time

adds the element of taking control and forming colonies often by foreign power

O

to occupy

vsto colonize

324 5.9

To take control of a place, often by force

involves settling and controlling territory long term rather than temporary military presence

A

to annex

vsto colonize

17 7.9

To take control of land by force and make it part of your country

focuses on creating settlements under foreign control rather than formal political incorporation

C

to colonialize

vsto colonize

7.8

To take control of a land and its people by a foreign country

is the same meaning but is an alternative spelling form

Antonyms

D

to decolonize

1 7.5

To give independence to a country or region that another country controls

How Controlling

to dominate

275 3.7

to annex

17 7.9

to occupy

324 5.9

to colonize

46 6.3

to settle

463 2.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology