Antonyms for colonize
ˈkɒl əˌnaɪzcol·o·nize

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. colonize

   Antonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot, wipe out

   Synonyms:
   augment, beget, breed, build up, cherish, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

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1. • Annex
   • Settle

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. colonize, coloniseverb

   settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world

   "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"

   Antonyms:
   decolonize, decolonise

   Synonyms:
   colonise

2. colonize, coloniseverb

   settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)

   "The British colonized the East Coast"

   Antonyms:
   decolonise, decolonize

   Synonyms:
   colonise

How to use colonize in a sentence?

1. Christian Yates:

   Traditionally people thought that cells didn't make it to the front of embryos to pigment the belly because they just weren't migrating fast enough, what we've been able to show through our studies is that actually, if anything, cells in piebald animals migrate faster but they're just not proliferating enough. They're not making enough daughter cells to colonize - or cover - the whole region of the skin that needs to be covered by the time the pigmentation pattern is set down.

2. Alessandro Di Battista:

   As a result they create more and more slaves, they want to colonize the south of Europe and so the peoples of southern Europe have to unite.

3. Melina Jampolis:

   I think in general we are beginning to understand that the health of the gut and the bacteria that colonize the gut (the microbiome) is critical to many aspects of good health, including brain health.

4. Chris Beard:

   (The findings) tells us to expect dramatic and dynamic changes to the Arctic ecosystem as it transforms in the face of continued warming, some animals that don’t currently live in the Arctic will colonize that region, and some of them will adapt to their new environment in ways that parallel Ignacius. Likewise, we can expect some of the new colonists to diversify in the Arctic, just as Ignacius did.

5. Christian Yates:

   What we've been able to tease out from the mathematical model is it's not necessarily that these cells are migrating in a directed way, actually these cells are diffusing, there's no direction to their migration. It's like when you put a drop of milk into a cup of coffee that you haven't stirred. Eventually that milk will be spread evenly throughout your coffee, and these cells are doing the same sort of thing - they're moving in an undirected manner and eventually, slowly, they manage to fully colonize the skin of this animal.

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