Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to colonize
Participle: colonized
Gerund: colonizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | colonize |
| you | colonize |
| he;she;it | colonizes |
| we | colonize |
| you | colonize |
| they | colonize |
Perfect
| I | have colonized |
| you | have colonized |
| he;she;it | has colonized |
| we | have colonized |
| you | have colonized |
| they | have colonized |
Past
| I | colonized |
| you | colonized |
| he;she;it | colonized |
| we | colonized |
| you | colonized |
| they | colonized |
Pluperfect
| I | had colonized |
| you | had colonized |
| he;she;it | had colonized |
| we | had colonized |
| you | had colonized |
| they | had colonized |
Future
| I | will colonize |
| you | will colonize |
| he;she;it | will colonize |
| we | will colonize |
| you | will colonize |
| they | will colonize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have colonized |
| you | will have colonized |
| he;she;it | will have colonized |
| we | will have colonized |
| you | will have colonized |
| they | will have colonized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | colonize |
| you | colonize |
| he;she;it | colonize |
| we | colonize |
| you | colonize |
| they | colonize |
Perfect
| I | have colonized |
| you | have colonized |
| he;she;it | have colonized |
| we | have colonized |
| you | have colonized |
| they | have colonized |
Imperfect
| I | colonized |
| you | colonized |
| he;she;it | colonized |
| we | colonized |
| you | colonized |
| they | colonized |
Pluperfect
| I | had colonized |
| you | had colonized |
| he;she;it | had colonized |
| we | had colonized |
| you | had colonized |
| they | had colonized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would colonize |
| you | would colonize |
| he;she;it | would colonize |
| we | would colonize |
| you | would colonize |
| they | would colonize |
Perfect
| I | would have colonized |
| you | would have colonized |
| he;she;it | would have colonized |
| we | would have colonized |
| you | would have colonized |
| they | would have colonized |
Imperative
| you | colonize |
| we | Let's colonize |
| you | colonize |
Verbs conjugated like 'colonize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'colonize'
colonise,
colorize,
Polonize,
bosonize,
calorize,
canonize,
caponize,
cognize,
colourize,
columnize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti
5. Proto-Italic *kʷelō
6. Latin colō
7. Latin colōnus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
9. Proto-Italic *-ijos
10. Proto-Italic *-ios
11. Old Latin -ios
12. Latin -ius
13. Latin -ia
14. Latin colōniader.
15. Middle English colane
16. English colony
17. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
18. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
19. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
20. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
21. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
22. Late Latin -izōder.
23. Middle French -iserbor.
24. Middle English -isen
25. English -ize
26. English colonize
27. From colony + -ize.
Verbs referencing "colonize"
Finnish with old forms
kolonisoida.
Sample Sentences
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When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers. [2011, Steven Z. Kussin, Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now, page 241:]
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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. [1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 509:]
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[2010, Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman, Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, →ISBN:]
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What disservice would be done if issues regarding sexualities in organisations were side-lined by a heteronormative impetus to colonise queer theory? [2011, Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies, →ISBN:]
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For slavery aimed not only to colonize black women's bodies, sex, and sexuality, to undermine her, it sought to subvert and destroy any authentic relationship between black women and black men as well as among black women themselves. [2015, Kwok Pui-Lan, Laura E. Donaldson, Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse, →ISBN:]
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[…] suggesting that organisational discourses of heteronormativity cannot fully colonise gay sexualities and genders. [2016, Nick Rumens, Queer Company: The Role and Meaning of Friendship in Gay Men's Work, →ISBN:]
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The burden of judgment imposed by the politics of respectability can easily colonize black minds. [2017, Christopher J. Lebron, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, →ISBN:]
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To have our grief colonized to facilitate a racist political agenda was beyond offensive. [2017 June 13, One Year After Pulse, Don't You Dare Come for Any of Us (Lambda Legal)]
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These award-winning works of nature writing have extended and enhanced a genre that Jamie herself has criticised, describing it as “colonised by middle-class white men”. [2021 August 23, Libby Brooks, quoting Kathleen Jamie, “Scotland’s new makar Kathleen Jamie: ‘Poetry is at the heart of our culture’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]