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colonize

C1 verb
us /ˈkɑlənaɪz/

colonize /ˈkɔlənɑjz/ nghĩa là chiếm làm thuộc địa

Các nghĩa

  1. chiếm làm thuộc địa

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

    transitive

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

  2. đô hộ, thống trị

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

    transitive

  3. lập thuộc địa

    To begin a colony or colonies.

    intransitive

  4. xâm chiếm, chiếm đoạt

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

    broadly · transitive

    […] suggesting that organisational discourses of heteronormativity cannot fully colonise gay sexualities and genders.

    The burden of judgment imposed by the politics of respectability can easily colonize black minds.

    To have our grief colonized to facilitate a racist political agenda was beyond offensive.

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