colonize

1. V-T If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it. 把…變爲殖民地

The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century. 英國第一次企圖把愛爾蘭變成殖民地是在12世紀。

Liberia was never colonized by the European powers. 利比裡亞從未淪爲歐洲列強的殖民地。

2. V-T When large numbers of animals colonize a place, they go to live there and make it their home. (動物) 移居於

Toads are colonizing the whole place. 蟾蜍正移居到這整個地區。

3. V-T When an area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts. (植物) 在…大量繁殖[usu passive]

The area was then colonized by scrub. 那時該地區被大量低矮灌木所覆蓋。