Colonize \Col"o*nize\, v. i. To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony. --C. Buchanan.
Colonize \Col"o*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Colonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Colonizing}.] [Cf. F. coloniser.] To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. --Bacon.
They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. --Howell.
Returning to Burma, Ne Win and his comrades fought first alongside the Japanese against the British, but then turned against their teachers after realizing that Japan would also colonize rather than liberate the Burmese.
The eagles were the first on record to nest and to colonize on the Rocky Mountains' eastern slopes in 1986.
Her descendants went on to colonize Europe and Asia, perhaps aided by an ability to speak that had not yet appeared in humans in those areas, said Allan C. Wilson, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley.
They are scientists, engineers, policymakers and future astronauts with one thing in common: They dream of a global effort to explore and colonize space.