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Adjective colonised has 1 sense
- colonized, colonised, settled - inhabited by colonists
Antonym: uninhabited (indirect, via inhabited)
Verb colonise has 2 senses
- colonize, colonise - settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
--1 is one way to annex
Antonyms: decolonize, decolonise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- colonize, colonise - settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast"
--2 is one way to settle, locate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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