- colonized, colonised, settled - inhabited by colonists
Antonym: uninhabited (indirect, via inhabited)
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun colonization1, noun colonizer1, noun colony1
Somebody ----s something
- colonize, colonise - settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast"
--2 is one way to settle, locate
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun colonization1, noun colony1
Somebody ----s something