colonises in English

verb
1
(of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it.
the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy

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1. Colonise (third-person singular simple present Colonises, present participle colonising, simple past and past participle Colonised) Non- Oxford British English standard spelling of colonize.

2. Adjectives slide into verbs because landscapes themselves are never just seen but work upon us instead in peculiar ways: fields are “Baized” with crops and algae “colonises the bark”.