As the indigenous people of North America, Native Americans were colonized on their own land, the places to which they trace their social, cultural, and religious origins.

Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over areas or peoples for foreign people to advance their trade, cultivation, exploitation and possibly settlement.

COLONIZED meaning: 1. past simple and past participle of colonize 2. to send people to live in and govern another…. Learn more.

to take control of or settle in territories other than one’s own. Many other European powers were colonizing during the modern period besides France. When the British colonized in Australia, …

col·o·nized , col·o·niz·ing , col·o·niz·es v. tr. 1. To form or establish a colony or colonies in. 2. To migrate to and settle in; occupy as a colony.

Definition of colonize verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. colonize something to take control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and send …

4 days ago · colonize (third-person singular simple present colonizes, present participle colonizing, simple past and past participle colonized) (American and Oxford British spelling) …

When an area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.

col•o•nize /ˈkɑləˌnaɪz/ v. [~ + object], -nized, -niz•ing. Government to establish a colony in; settle: They colonized the region. col•o•nize (kol′ ə nīz′), v., -nized, -niz•ing. settle: England colonized …

Dec 4, 2016 · It is important to reassess wounds frequently to determine if there is colonization of bacteria within the wound. Emergency Medicine Reports.