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self-colonising

self-colonising is the present participle and gerund of self-colonise.

Meaning of self-colonise

Verb

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

  1. To regain power after being colonized.
    • Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes.2011, Ridwanul Hoque, Judicial Activism in Bangladesh: A Golden Mean Approach, →ISBN, page 95
  2. To be introduced into an ecosystem via natural processes.
    • Elsewhere in the capital, new shoots are pushing up through the soil on a 460sq m (5,000sq ft) biodiverse green roof at Laban Dance Centre, in southeast London, where the roof has been left to self-colonise with a mixture of seed.2004, The Garden - Volume 129, page 670

Questions about self-colonising

What is self-colonising the present participle and gerund of?
Self-colonising is the present participle and gerund of self-colonise.

Words near self-colonising in the dictionary

  1. self-colonisation
  2. self-colonisations
  3. self-colonise
  4. self-colonised
  5. self-colonises
  6. self-colonising
  7. self-colonization
  8. self-colonizations
  9. self-colonize
  10. self-colonized
  11. self-colonizes

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