"colonise" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "colonises",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "colonisable"
        },
        {
          "word": "colonisee"
        },
        {
          "word": "decolonise"
        },
        {
          "word": "uncolonise"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 1, Josh Butler, quoting Lidia Thorpe, “Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize."
      ],
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          "colonize",
          "colonize#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "American and Oxford British spelling",
          "word": "colonize"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "colonise"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "colonisable"
    },
    {
      "word": "colonisee"
    },
    {
      "word": "decolonise"
    },
    {
      "word": "uncolonise"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "colonises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "colonised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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          "colonize#English"
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      "word": "colonize"
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  "word": "colonise"
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