colonize

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.

   “When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.”

2. fiil To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).

   “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.”

3. fiil To begin a colony or colonies.
4. fiil To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.

   “What disservice would be done if issues regarding sexualities in organisations were side-lined by a heteronormative impetus to colonise queer theory?”