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recolonise

recolonise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recolonize.

Meaning of recolonize

Verb

recolonize (third-person singular simple present recolonizes, present participle recolonizing, simple past and past participle recolonized)

  1. To colonize again, especially after decolonization.

Forms of recolonise

third-person singular presentrecolonises
present participlerecolonising
past participlerecolonised
pastrecolonised

Questions about recolonise

What is recolonise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Recolonise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recolonize.

Words near recolonise in the dictionary

  1. recollision
  2. recollisional
  3. recollisions
  4. recolonisation
  5. recolonisations
  6. recolonise
  7. recolonised
  8. recoloniser
  9. recolonisers
  10. recolonises
  11. recolonising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recolonise (page history and authors); recolonize (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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