"self-colonise" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "self-colonises",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-colonising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-colonised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-colonised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Ridwanul Hoque, Judicial Activism in Bangladesh: A Golden Mean Approach, page 95",
          "text": "Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Irene Watson, Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law",
          "text": "And it is imposed on us by the same Ngarrindjeri who themselves were once the colonised. The processes of colonialism in the end become self-colonising.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Le-Ha Phan, Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’",
          "text": "They did not apologise for being Asian; in other words, they did not seem to be self-colonised.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of self-colonize",
        "To regain power after being colonized."
      ],
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    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, The Garden - Volume 129, page 670",
          "text": "Elsewhere in the capital, new shoots are pushing up through the soil on a 460sq m (5,000sq ft) biodiverse green roof at Laban Dance Centre, in southeast London, where the roof has been left to self-colonise with a mixture of seed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Geoffrey Richard Clark, Atholl Anderson, The Early Prehistory of Fiji, page 43",
          "text": "The presence of suitable rodent prey introduced by people presumably at or near colonisation about 3000 years ago (Anderson and Clark, 1999; White et al. 2000) was probably the prerequisite that allowed barn owls, which are specialist predators of small mammals and specifically rodents, to self-colonise, presumably from the Solomon Islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Douglas Waterford, 21st Century Homestead: Urban Agriculture, page 99",
          "text": "The original idea was to allow the roofs to self-colonise with plants, but they are sometimes seeded to increase their bio-diversity potential in the short term.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of self-colonize",
        "To be introduced into an ecosystem via natural processes."
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  "word": "self-colonise"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "self-colonises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-colonising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-colonised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-colonised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Ridwanul Hoque, Judicial Activism in Bangladesh: A Golden Mean Approach, page 95",
          "text": "Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Irene Watson, Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law",
          "text": "And it is imposed on us by the same Ngarrindjeri who themselves were once the colonised. The processes of colonialism in the end become self-colonising.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Le-Ha Phan, Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’",
          "text": "They did not apologise for being Asian; in other words, they did not seem to be self-colonised.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of self-colonize",
        "To regain power after being colonized."
      ],
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          "self-colonize",
          "self-colonize#English"
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      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, The Garden - Volume 129, page 670",
          "text": "Elsewhere in the capital, new shoots are pushing up through the soil on a 460sq m (5,000sq ft) biodiverse green roof at Laban Dance Centre, in southeast London, where the roof has been left to self-colonise with a mixture of seed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Geoffrey Richard Clark, Atholl Anderson, The Early Prehistory of Fiji, page 43",
          "text": "The presence of suitable rodent prey introduced by people presumably at or near colonisation about 3000 years ago (Anderson and Clark, 1999; White et al. 2000) was probably the prerequisite that allowed barn owls, which are specialist predators of small mammals and specifically rodents, to self-colonise, presumably from the Solomon Islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Douglas Waterford, 21st Century Homestead: Urban Agriculture, page 99",
          "text": "The original idea was to allow the roofs to self-colonise with plants, but they are sometimes seeded to increase their bio-diversity potential in the short term.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of self-colonize",
        "To be introduced into an ecosystem via natural processes."
      ],
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      ]
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  "word": "self-colonise"
}