Synonyms for colonize
ˈkɒl əˌnaɪzcol·o·nize

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1. colonize

   Synonyms:
   augment, beget, breed, build up, cherish, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

   Antonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot, wipe out

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1. colonize, coloniseverb

   settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world

   "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"

   Synonyms:
   colonise

   Antonyms:
   decolonize, decolonise

2. colonize, coloniseverb

   settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)

   "The British colonized the East Coast"

   Synonyms:
   colonise

   Antonyms:
   decolonise, decolonize

Matched Categories

1. • Annex
   • Settle

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1. List of paraphrases for "colonize":

   colonise, settle

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1. Christian Yates:

   What we've been able to tease out from the mathematical model is it's not necessarily that these cells are migrating in a directed way, actually these cells are diffusing, there's no direction to their migration. It's like when you put a drop of milk into a cup of coffee that you haven't stirred. Eventually that milk will be spread evenly throughout your coffee, and these cells are doing the same sort of thing - they're moving in an undirected manner and eventually, slowly, they manage to fully colonize the skin of this animal.

2. Christian Yates:

   Traditionally people thought that cells didn't make it to the front of embryos to pigment the belly because they just weren't migrating fast enough, what we've been able to show through our studies is that actually, if anything, cells in piebald animals migrate faster but they're just not proliferating enough. They're not making enough daughter cells to colonize - or cover - the whole region of the skin that needs to be covered by the time the pigmentation pattern is set down.

3. Chris Beard:

   (The findings) tells us to expect dramatic and dynamic changes to the Arctic ecosystem as it transforms in the face of continued warming, some animals that don’t currently live in the Arctic will colonize that region, and some of them will adapt to their new environment in ways that parallel Ignacius. Likewise, we can expect some of the new colonists to diversify in the Arctic, just as Ignacius did.

4. Melina Jampolis:

   I think in general we are beginning to understand that the health of the gut and the bacteria that colonize the gut (the microbiome) is critical to many aspects of good health, including brain health.

5. Bobby Jindal:

   You can call them whatever term you want but absolutely there are neighborhoods where we have communities of people that don't want to integrate, don't want to assimilate, they're actually going in there to colonize, to overtake the culture. That's what's going to happen in America if we're not careful.