Usually means: Establishing control over foreign territories.
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  1. colonizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. colonizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. colonizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Colonizing, colonizing: Wordnik
  5. colonizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. colonizing: Wiktionary
  7. Colonizing, colonizing: Dictionary.com
  8. colonizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Colonizing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Colonizing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. colonizing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. colonizing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. colonizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. colonizing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colonizing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See colonize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (colonize)

verb:  (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
verb:  (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
verb:  (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
verb:  (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
verb:  (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
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