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词汇 colonizing
释义 colonizing
present participle ofcolonize
colonize
verb
(UK usuallycolonise)uk /ˈkɒl.ə.naɪz/ us /ˈkɑː.lə.naɪz/
[ T ]
to send people to live in and govern another country: 使殖民地化;将…建为殖民地
Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century.秘鲁在16世纪沦为西班牙的殖民地。
European nations set about violently invading and colonising large chunks of the globe.
Some scientists believe that we will have to colonise other planets.
Compare
decolonize
recolonize
[ I or T ]
(of animals, plants, or bacteria) to start to live or grow in a particular area:
The beetles colonise a tree, tunnelling through the bark to lay eggs.
The ceilings of the caves had been colonized by bats.
Left alone, domestic cats quickly colonize, breed and become wild.
The bacterium can colonise in the nose, throat, and skin without causing infection.
[ T ]usually disapproving
to fill a particular place or take control of a particular area of activity:
The city centre has been colonized by coffee shop chains.
Belize was colonised by the British.
The image shows a colonizing ship sailing toward the new world.
She imagines a future in which humans have colonised the solar system.
The bacteria have a unique ability to colonize the human stomach.
This invasive species of algae has colonised the Atlantic coast of Europe.
Mussels can significantly affect a boat's performance if they colonize on its hull.
This part of Florida has been colonised by elderly retirees.
They colonized our minds by sending us to their schools.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Colonization & self-government
acknowledgement of country
annex
annexation
anti-colonial
anti-colonialism
colony
commonwealth
condominium
crown colony
declare independence
imperially
independence
Independence Day
intercolonial
land acknowledgment
recolonize
secede
secession
self-determination
self-governing

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Animal dwellings - natural
Animal & plant biology - general words
Bacteria, moulds, germs & viruses
Controlling and being in charge

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Examples of colonizing


colonizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


In conclusion, government practices of colonizing the vineyards generated spaces where the body of the phylloxera were seen as either dead, alive, or absent.
For patient no. 2, the infecting strains from the candidiasis stage in 1999 and colonizing strains collected in 2001 and 2002 had y87 % relatedness.
Living in the intellectual space between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, colonizing the margins of erudition was a difficult and hazardous place to inhabit.
Germination and growth of colonizing species in artificial gaps of different sizes in dipterocarp rain forest.
They focused on working with government or, where possible, ' colonizing ' the echelons of the state that had immediate authority over the region as a whole.
Bioethics is spreading like kudzu, colonizing new areas even where it is unfamiliar, unexpected, and unwelcome.
Rather, it is the precedence given to one of the institutional outcomes of this colonizing process : the state.
However, these studies did not take into account the possible role of biofilms colonizing the distribution system.
I am afraid they have thoughts of colonizing that quarter.
Here, we hypothesize that smaller-seeded species can produce greater number of seeds and disperse them widely, thus colonizing an open habitat by germinating quickly.
It raises concerns about colonizing the other, confronting research participants with negative evaluations of themselves, and a number of other provocative issues.
Given the restricted host range of a specialist aphid, the adaptive value of maternal effects when colonizing highly predictable hosts is to be expected.
They did so by colonizing the language historians use.
For example, one could quickly assess the vigour of primary forest species colonizing successional forests by noting their leaved stem lengths.
These ' high ' standards are invariably defined in terms of the prevailing, that is ordinary, standards in the former colonizing nations.
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