Colonize
Colonize verb - To supply with inhabitants.
Usage example: citizens who were sent abroad to colonize the conquered lands
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Synonyms for Colonize
Settle is a synonym for colonize in accommodation topic. In some cases you can use "Settle" instead a verb "Colonize", when it comes to topics like establish, inhabit. popular alternative
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Both words in one sentence
- Then finally, it seemed to settle on 2683, because it would be impossible to colonize 800 planets in 70 years, and instead moved the Mass Effect universe up 500 years.
Source: Fan Fic / The Last Spartan -
The Verilent Hive has been doing this for hundreds of years: Bomb planet, wait for dust to settle, then re-colonize to expand hive!
Source: Video Game / Anachronox - It began with the Helghan Corporation objecting to the UCN's unfair treatment of the corporations they sent to colonize planets for resources, and the ISA was sent to drive them out of Vekta, forcing them to settle on the only other world they had, Helghan.
Source: The War of Earthly Aggression
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