(BrE also colonise) verb [VN]
1 to take control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and send people from your own country to live there:
The area was colonized by the Vikings.
2 (biology) (of animals or plants) to live or grow in large numbers in a particular area:
The lower slopes are colonized by flowering plants. * Thousands of bats had colonized the ruins.
colonization, colonisation noun [U]:
the colonization of the 'New World' * plant colonization
colonizer, coloniser noun
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