Definition of "colonizes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colonize. (verb)

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• "NDM-1 is potentially more destructive than MRSA, and it may not be long before NDM-1 colonizes all of our hospitals."
• "An alien force colonizes an otherwise sane and sound mind, forcing the possessed person to behave in a wicked way."
• "Even in the excerpts Smith herself quotes from Netherland, there are vivid desciptions of place, which Smith herself admits (‘But in practice Netherland colonizes all space by way of voracious image.’), images which even seem to explore the relationship between time and space, though of course I will need to read the novel before stating this with any conviction."