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Synonyms for colonize
ˈkɒl əˌnaɪzcol·o·nize

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  1. colonize, coloniseverb

    settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world

    "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"

    Synonyms:
    colonise

    Antonyms:
    decolonize, decolonise

  2. colonize, coloniseverb

    settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)

    "The British colonized the East Coast"

    Synonyms:
    colonise

    Antonyms:
    decolonise, decolonize

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  1. List of paraphrases for "colonize":

    colonise, settle

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How to use colonize in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Christian Yates:

    Traditionally people thought that cells didn't make it to the front of embryos to pigment the belly because they just weren't migrating fast enough, what we've been able to show through our studies is that actually, if anything, cells in piebald animals migrate faster but they're just not proliferating enough. They're not making enough daughter cells to colonize - or cover - the whole region of the skin that needs to be covered by the time the pigmentation pattern is set down.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.


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