1. Grant independence to (a former colony)
   "West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960's"
   - decolonise [Brit]

Derived forms: decolonizes, decolonized, decolonizing

See also: decolonization

Type of: liberate, set free

Antonym: colonize

Encyclopedia: Decolonize

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