Colonise

Word COLONISE
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Definitions and meanings of "Colonise"

What do we mean by colonise?

To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.

To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.

To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).

To begin a colony or colonies.

(by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.

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The word "colonise" in example sentences

That party is the far-right Freedom Party (PVV), of Geert Wilders, the populist firebrand behind the anti-Islamic film Fitna, who has accused Muslims of trying to "colonise" his country. ❋ Almere Peter Beaumont (2010)

The Jews ARE the indigenous inhabitants, and as such cannot 'colonise' their own country. ❋ Unknown (2008)

South Africa did not want to "colonise" other country's, which it did not have the capacity to do, and would not itself "gain" from this, but would do it rather in the interests of Africa. ❋ Unknown (2002)

A cursory analysis of the issue of Jewish settlements reveals a calculated and systematic strategy to infiltrate and 'colonise' the Palestinian territories. ❋ Unknown (2001)

To 'colonise' those minds as Fred Phillips puts it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to 'colonise' and 'steal land' from the 'native' Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1788, the British arrived to colonise Sydney with convicts and ‘modern’ Australia has grown from there into a fantastic, diverse, beautiful country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ling and birch colonise spoil and there are tall oaks rooted in piles of mossy rocks along the old mineral line leading from the blocked-off tunnel by Wheal Josiah. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It seems to me that the only hope for us here in the West is for the East to colonise the West and bring some of their values of wisdom and deep appreciation of life to our shallow underdeveloped society here, else we are doomed to becoming a society of lobotomised chimps fighting over washing machines crapped out like confetti by the far East. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What his article lacks, however, is an acknowledgment that this emphasis on Israel is due in no small part to western foreign policy which has kept the despots and dictators in place in "Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain", while giving Israel free rein to oppress the Palestinians and colonise their land. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the BBC's new big-budget sci-fi offering, Hermione Norris and Eric Mabius Daniel from Ugly Betty colonise the planet Carpathia with a bunch of other off-worlders who naturally bring plenty of excess emotional baggage with them. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In adolescence, I studied it with fierce concentration in the mirror, convinced my nose was too long, my lips too fat and my zits would colonise all available facial skin. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The two events happened after our ancestors migrated out of Africa to colonise the rest of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is the second book in a series; its predecessor, Flood, which I haven't read, saw the near-future Earth threatened by catastrophically rising sea levels, and Ark follows the story of a group of young survivors sent to colonise a distant planet in order to continue the human race. ❋ Drplokta (2010)

They occupy the land and the women, they demoralise and colonise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The French, who now we either revile or colonise, long ago damned the English as "a good land and a bad people". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Small weeds turned into flowering triffids, couch grass spread out from the paths to colonise the beds, crops went unharvested. ❋ Lia Leendertz (2010)

The only thing stopping it is Israeli chauvinism and desire to colonise, as well as those enablers who try to exaggerate the concessions that Israel has already made. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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