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Colonize   /kˈɑlənˌaɪz/   Listen
Colonize

verb
(past & past part. colonized; pres. part. colonizing)
1.
Settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world.  Synonym: colonise.  Antonyms: decolonise, decolonize.
2.
Settle as colonists or establish a colony (in).  Synonym: colonise.



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"Colonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... jingo myself. But a wicked material jingo, who wants facts, not theories. If I thought it possible and that it would pay, I would annex the North Pole and colonize the Equator. It is, after the manner of the lady in the play, that the President 'doth protest too much,' which displeases me and where, in point of fact, I 'get ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... It cannot compare in practical value with, nor can it take the place of, measures to secure the distribution of the many thousands who come in ignorance of the industrial needs and opportunities of this country, and colonize alien ...
— Aliens or Americans? • Howard B. Grose

... That it is the duty of servants to love, serve and obey their masters, and that it is the duty of masters to enlighten the minds and elevate the characters of their slaves—to prepare them for self government and the enjoyment of liberty, and then to colonize them. ...
— A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin - or, An Essay on Slavery • A. Woodward

... shells of different snails: Helix aspersa, H. algira, H. nemoralis, H. caespitum. The first-named, the Common Snail, is the most often used, under the stone-heaps and in the crevices of old walls. Both Anthidia colonize only the second whorl of the spiral. The central part is too small and remains unoccupied. Even so with the front whorl, the largest, which is left completely empty, so much so that, on looking through the opening, it is impossible to tell whether the shell does ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre

... destroyed those roots and had almost forgotten the existence of the people. From the dregs and off-scourings of the population a vast empire had been created, but the people of England were not allowed to colonize England. ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward


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