Antonyms for colonize
ˈkɒl əˌnaɪzcol·o·nize

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. colonize

   Antonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot, wipe out

   Synonyms:
   augment, beget, breed, build up, cherish, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

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1. • Annex
   • Settle

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. colonize, coloniseverb

   settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world

   "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"

   Antonyms:
   decolonize, decolonise

   Synonyms:
   colonise

2. colonize, coloniseverb

   settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)

   "The British colonized the East Coast"

   Antonyms:
   decolonise, decolonize

   Synonyms:
   colonise

How to use colonize in a sentence?

1. Alessandro Di Battista:

   As a result they create more and more slaves, they want to colonize the south of Europe and so the peoples of southern Europe have to unite.

2. Melina Jampolis:

   I think in general we are beginning to understand that the health of the gut and the bacteria that colonize the gut (the microbiome) is critical to many aspects of good health, including brain health.

3. Christian Yates:

   What we've been able to tease out from the mathematical model is it's not necessarily that these cells are migrating in a directed way, actually these cells are diffusing, there's no direction to their migration. It's like when you put a drop of milk into a cup of coffee that you haven't stirred. Eventually that milk will be spread evenly throughout your coffee, and these cells are doing the same sort of thing - they're moving in an undirected manner and eventually, slowly, they manage to fully colonize the skin of this animal.

4. Bobby Jindal:

   You can call them whatever term you want but absolutely there are neighborhoods where we have communities of people that don't want to integrate, don't want to assimilate, they're actually going in there to colonize, to overtake the culture. That's what's going to happen in America if we're not careful.

5. Pope Francis:

   This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

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