transcription, транскрипция: [ kɒlənaɪz ]
( colonizes, colonizing, colonized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'colonise'
1.
If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century...
For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.
VERB : V n , V-ed
2.
When large numbers of animals colonize a place, they go to live there and make it their home.
Toads are colonising the whole place.
VERB : V n
3.
When an area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.
The area was then colonized by scrub.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed by n