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| has gloss | (verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century" colonise, colonize |
| lexicalization | eng: colonise |
| lexicalization | eng: colonize |
| subclass of | (verb) take (territory) as if by conquest; "Hitler annexed Lithuania" annex |
| Meaning | |
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| Bulgarian | |
| lexicalization | bul: колонизирам |
| Catalan | |
| lexicalization | cat: colonitzar |
| Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexicalization | cmn: zhimin |
| Welsh | |
| lexicalization | cym: gwladychu |
| German | |
| lexicalization | deu: kolonisieren |
| Esperanto | |
| lexicalization | epo: kolonii |
| lexicalization | epo: koloniigi |
| Basque | |
| lexicalization | eus: kolonizatu |
| Finnish | |
| lexicalization | fin: kolonisoida |
| lexicalization | fin: asuttaa |
| French | |
| lexicalization | fra: coloniser |
| Hungarian | |
| lexicalization | hun: gyarmatosít |
| Armenian | |
| lexicalization | hye: գաղութացնել |
| Italian | |
| lexicalization | ita: colonizzare |
| Dutch | |
| lexicalization | nld: koloniseren |
| Portuguese | |
| lexicalization | por: colonizar |
| Russian | |
| lexicalization | rus: колонизировать |
| lexicalization | rus: заселить |
| Castilian | |
| lexicalization | spa: colonizar |
| Turkish | |
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| lexicalization | tur: sömürge kurmak |
| lexicalization | tur: sömürgeye yerleþmek |
| lexicalization | tur: sömürgeye yerleþtirmek |
| Ukrainian | |
| lexicalization | ukr: заселити |
| lexicalization | ukr: колонізуйте |
| lexicalization | ukr: поселятися |
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| lexicalization | ukr: колонізувати |
| lexicalization | ukr: оселятися |
| lexicalization | ukr: заселювати |
| lexicalization | ukr: заселяти |
| Chinese | |
| lexicalization | zho: 拓殖 |
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| opposite | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony); "West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960's" decolonise, decolonize |
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