Definition of "colonizing" [colonizing]

• Present participle of colonize. (verb)

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• "Investigators said the southern-based mob had succeeded in what they call colonizing Lombardy, thanks to its infiltration of the political and business environment."
• "Second, Red Colony is a site for people interested in colonizing and/or terraforming Mars."
• "In another article we will spend more time with the early Spaniards, the Jesuits and Franciscans who were instrumental in colonizing California."