colonise

Verb	1.	colonise - settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century" colonize annex - take (territory) by conquest; "Hitler annexed Lithuania" decolonise, decolonize - grant independence to (a former colony); "West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960's"
	2.	colonise - settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast" colonize locate, settle - take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"

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