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colonialise

colonialise is the alternative form of colonialize.

Meaning of colonialize

Verb

colonialize (third-person singular simple present colonializes, present participle colonializing, simple past and past participle colonialized)

  1. To make colonial.

Forms of colonialise

third-person singular presentcolonialises
present participlecolonialising
past participlecolonialised
pastcolonialised

Origin of colonialise

From colonial + -ise.

Questions about colonialise

What is colonialise the alternative form of?
Colonialise is the alternative form of colonialize.

Words near colonialise in the dictionary

  1. Colonial Revival
  2. Colonial Revivals
  3. colonial salmon
  4. colonialisation
  5. colonialisations
  6. colonialise
  7. colonialised
  8. colonialises
  9. colonialising
  10. colonialism
  11. colonialisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonialise (page history and authors); colonialize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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