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Verb colonize 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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