"colonize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkɑlənaɪz/ [General-American], /ˈkɒlənaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-colonize.wav Forms: colonizes [present, singular, third-person], colonizing [participle, present], colonized [participle, past], colonized [past]
Etymology: From colony + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|colony|ize}} colony + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} colonize (third-person singular simple present colonizes, present participle colonizing, simple past and past participle colonized)
  1. (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony. Tags: transitive Translations (to inhabit a new place): whakataiwhenua (Maori), वसाहत करणे (vasāhat karṇe) (Marathi)
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb-oOXceNPP Categories (other): Colonialism Disambiguation of Colonialism: 26 17 0 32 25 Disambiguation of 'to inhabit a new place': 38 27 7 6 21
  2. (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb-VGD5Q0ym Categories (other): Colonialism Disambiguation of Colonialism: 26 17 0 32 25
  3. (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb--JBigUP3
  4. (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies. Tags: intransitive Translations (to begin a new colony): koloniseer (Afrikaans), kolonizoj (Albanian), ἀποικίζω (apoikízō) (Ancient Greek), استعمر (istaʕmar) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), colonizar (Asturian), müstəmləkələşdirmək (Azerbaijani), каланізава́ць (kalanizavácʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), колонизи́рам (kolonizíram) (Bulgarian), colonitzar (Catalan), 拓殖 (tuòzhí) (Chinese Mandarin), 殖民 (zhímín) (Chinese Mandarin), kolonizovat (Czech), kolonisere (Danish), koloniseren (Dutch), asuttaa (Finnish), kolonisoida (Finnish), coloniser (French), colonizar (Galician), kolonisieren (German), αποικίσει (apoikísei) (Greek), gyarmatosít (Hungarian), kolonizál (Hungarian), colonizzare (Italian), kolonizēt (Latvian), kolonizuoti (Lithuanian), колонизи́ра (kolonizíra) (Macedonian), whakakoroni (Maori), वसाहत करणे (vasāhat karṇe) (Marathi), kolonisere (Norwegian Bokmål), colonizar (Occitan), استعمار کردن (este'mâr kardan) (Persian), kolonizować [imperfective] (Polish), skolonizować [perfective] (Polish), colonizar (Portuguese), mitmay (Quechua), coloniza (Romanian), колонизи́ровать (kolonizírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), колонизи́рати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), kolonizírati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), kolonizovať (Slovak), kolonizirati (Slovene), colonizar (Spanish), kolonisera (Swedish), sömürgeleştirmek (Turkish), колонізува́ти (kolonizuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian), заселя́ти (zaseljáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), засели́ти (zaselýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), קאָלאָניזירן (kolonizirn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb-Wy2Sm0Nx Categories (other): Colonialism Disambiguation of Colonialism: 26 17 0 32 25 Disambiguation of 'to begin a new colony': 9 7 1 75 7
  5. (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate. Tags: broadly, transitive Categories (topical): Social sciences
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: colonise (english: non-Oxford British spelling) Related terms: colonial, colonialism, colonist, colony

Verb [Galician]

Head templates: {{head|gl|verb form}} colonize
  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of colonizar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: colonizar
    Sense id: en-colonize-gl-verb-rYI3ja7O Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Galician entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 9 2 2 8 22 25 4 25 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 1 1 9 23 27 2 27 2 Disambiguation of Galician entries with incorrect language header: 80 20
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of colonizar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: colonizar
    Sense id: en-colonize-gl-verb-ersXqDqL

Verb [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{head|pt|verb form}} colonize
  1. inflection of colonizar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: colonizar
    Sense id: en-colonize-pt-verb-rYI3ja7O Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 9 2 2 8 22 25 4 25 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 1 1 9 23 27 2 27 2 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 80 20
  2. inflection of colonizar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: colonizar
    Sense id: en-colonize-pt-verb-ersXqDqL

Inflected forms

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "colonizee"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "decolonize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hypercolonize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "monocolonize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "alt": "neo-colonise",
      "word": "neo-colonize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noncolonized"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "precolonized"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "recolonize"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "alt": "self-colonise",
      "word": "self-colonize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "uncolonize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "uncolonized"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From colony + -ize.",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "colonizing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "colonized",
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        "participle",
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    "col‧o‧nize"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "colonial"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "colonialism"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "colonist"
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        "To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony."
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          "colony"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony."
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          "_dis1": "38 27 7 6 21",
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          "word": "whakataiwhenua"
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          "_dis1": "38 27 7 6 21",
          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
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          "sense": "to inhabit a new place",
          "word": "वसाहत करणे"
        }
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Steven Z. Kussin, Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now, page 241:",
          "text": "When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.",
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        }
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        "(transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 509:",
          "text": "The administration finally sent a naval vessel to return the 368 survivors to the United States in 1864. This ended official efforts to colonize blacks.",
          "type": "quote"
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        "To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area)."
      ],
      "id": "en-colonize-en-verb--JBigUP3",
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          "settle",
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          "indigenous"
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        "(transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area)."
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      "id": "en-colonize-en-verb-Wy2Sm0Nx",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "koloniseer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonizoj"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "arz",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "istaʕmar",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
            "Egyptian-Arabic"
          ],
          "word": "استعمر"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonizar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "müstəmləkələşdirmək"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "kalanizavácʹ",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "каланізава́ць"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kolonizíram",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "колонизи́рам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonitzar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tuòzhí",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "拓殖"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhímín",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "殖民"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonizovat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonisere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "koloniseren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "asuttaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonisoida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "coloniser"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonizar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonisieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "apoikísei",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "αποικίσει"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "apoikízō",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "ἀποικίζω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "gyarmatosít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonizál"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonizzare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonizēt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonizuoti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "kolonizíra",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "колонизи́ра"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "whakakoroni"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "vasāhat karṇe",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "वसाहत करणे"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonisere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonizar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "este'mâr kardan",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "استعمار کردن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "kolonizować"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "skolonizować"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonizar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "mitmay"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "coloniza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kolonizírovatʹ",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "колонизи́ровать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "колонизи́рати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "kolonizírati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "9 7 1 75 7",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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        "(transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony."
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          "ref": "2011, Steven Z. Kussin, Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now, page 241:",
          "text": "When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.",
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        "(transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony."
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          "ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 509:",
          "text": "The administration finally sent a naval vessel to return the 368 survivors to the United States in 1864. This ended official efforts to colonize blacks.",
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        "(transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area)."
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        "To begin a colony or colonies."
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        "(intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies."
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          "ref": "2010, Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman, Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, →ISBN:",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2011, Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies, →ISBN:",
          "text": "What disservice would be done if issues regarding sexualities in organisations were side-lined by a heteronormative impetus to colonise queer theory?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kwok Pui-Lan, Laura E. Donaldson, Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse, →ISBN:",
          "text": "For slavery aimed not only to colonize black women's bodies, sex, and sexuality, to undermine her, it sought to subvert and destroy any authentic relationship between black women and black men as well as among black women themselves.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Nick Rumens, Queer Company: The Role and Meaning of Friendship in Gay Men's Work, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] suggesting that organisational discourses of heteronormativity cannot fully colonise gay sexualities and genders.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Christopher J. Lebron, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The burden of judgment imposed by the politics of respectability can easily colonize black minds.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 June 13, One Year After Pulse, Don't You Dare Come for Any of Us (Lambda Legal)",
          "text": "To have our grief colonized to facilitate a racist political agenda was beyond offensive."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 23, Libby Brooks, quoting Kathleen Jamie, “Scotland’s new makar Kathleen Jamie: ‘Poetry is at the heart of our culture’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "These award-winning works of nature writing have extended and enhanced a genre that Jamie herself has criticised, describing it as “colonised by middle-class white men”.",
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to inhabit a new place",
      "word": "whakataiwhenua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "vasāhat karṇe",
      "sense": "to inhabit a new place",
      "word": "वसाहत करणे"
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "koloniseer"
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizoj"
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      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "istaʕmar",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "استعمر"
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      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "müstəmləkələşdirmək"
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kalanizavácʹ",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
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      "word": "каланізава́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kolonizíram",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "колонизи́рам"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tuòzhí",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "拓殖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhímín",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "殖民"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizovat"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisere"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "koloniseren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "asuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "coloniser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apoikísei",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "αποικίσει"
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "ἀποικίζω"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "gyarmatosít"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizál"
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    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizzare"
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizēt"
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      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizuoti"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "whakakoroni"
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      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "vasāhat karṇe",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "वसाहत करणे"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisere"
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      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "este'mâr kardan",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "استعمار کردن"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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      "word": "kolonizować"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
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      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "mitmay"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "coloniza"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kolonizírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "колонизи́рати"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizovať"
    },
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizirati"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisera"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "sömürgeleştirmek"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kolonizuváty",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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        "perfective"
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      "word": "колонізува́ти"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "zaseljáty",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "заселя́ти"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zaselýty",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kolonizirn",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "קאָלאָניזירן"
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