Verb colonize has 2 senses
  1. colonize, colonise - settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
    --1 is one way to annex
    Antonyms: decolonize, decolonise
    Derived forms: noun colonization1, noun colonizer1, noun colony1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. colonize, colonise - settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast"
    --2 is one way to settle, locate
    Derived forms: noun colonization1, noun colony1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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