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colonising

colonising is the present participle and gerund of colonise.

Meaning of colonise

Verb

colonise (third-person singular simple present colonises, present participle colonising, simple past and past participle colonised)

  1. Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.
    • “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.2022 August 1, Josh Butler, quoting Lidia Thorpe, “Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about colonising

What is colonising the present participle and gerund of?
Colonising is the present participle and gerund of colonise.

Words near colonising in the dictionary

  1. colonisee
  2. colonisees
  3. coloniser
  4. colonisers
  5. colonises
  6. colonising
  7. colonist
  8. colonists
  9. colonitis
  10. colonizability
  11. colonizable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonising (page history and authors); colonise (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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