Usually means: Extend power through colonization, dominance.
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  1. imperialize: Merriam-Webster
  2. imperialize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperialize: Wordnik
  4. imperialize: Wiktionary
  5. Imperialize: Dictionary.com
  6. Imperialize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. imperialize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Imperialize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. imperialize: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Imperialize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (imperialize)

▸ verb:  To invest with imperial authority, character, or style.
▸ verb:  To bring to the form of an empire.

Similar:
imperialise, impose, colonialize, royalize, invest, overinstitutionalize, dignify, continentalize, royalise, Napoleonize, more...

Opposite:
decolonize, liberate, emancipate

Types:
annex, colonize, occupy, overthrow, more...

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Similar:
imperialise, impose, colonialize, royalize, invest, overinstitutionalize, dignify, continentalize, royalise, Napoleonize, more...

Opposite:
decolonize, liberate, emancipate

Types:
annex, colonize, occupy, overthrow, more...



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