| 单词 | colonize |
| 释义 | colonize From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishGovernmentcolonizecol‧o‧nize (also colonise British English) /ˈkɒlənaɪz $ ˈkɑː-/ verb [transitive]1 PGto establish political control over an area or over another country, and send your citizens there to settle → colony2 if animals or plants colonize an area, large numbers of them start to live therea dead tree that has been colonized by ants —colonizer noun [countable] —colonization /ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃən $ ˌkɑːlənə-/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuscolonize• Yet, in fact, only a small part of the world has yet been car colonized.• But what is beyond question is that, in the post-contact era, it was Hawaii that colonized other countries with surfing.• Crabs are among the first animals to colonize the new vent sites. |
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