Verb (used with object) : England colonized Australia. ,to colonize laborers in a mining region.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : They went out to Australia to colonize.    From Dictionary.com. 

I think we're looking at a bunch of old style Colonialists - and the country being colonised is England.    From Wordnik.com.  [“End of Welfare”.] Reference

Germans -- colonised, that is to say, in urban and money-making fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo] Reference

Ethiopia had never been colonised, which is very important even when it comes to understanding the music of this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Music Central] Reference

Goldfields mines are to be "colonised" this year by the National.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At numerous points around the lake, the newly exposed lakebed has already been "colonised", with temporary federal government permits, by land-starved farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lake Chapala: 2000 follow-up to saving Mexico's largest lake] Reference

Scotland was not 'colonised' as various parts of the British Empire were, the history is as much about the competing interests of rival royals as it is about nationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case Of The Scottish Pardon: Or, Extremism in Defense Of Liberty Is Becoming A Little Tiresome] Reference

Europe colonised Africa and practised slave labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inaugural lecture of the Parliamentary Millennium Project] Reference

The country actually colonised embraced the Banate of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

Others of them colonised Ireland, the Hebrides, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference

Spaniards, would, ere this, have colonised and converted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

The colonisers are of course white and the colonised, black.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHURCH AND OUR STRUGGLE] Reference

Within months, it was colonised by vegetation, insects and gulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragile habitat of French mystery island 'risks being trampled underfoot'] Reference

From ARABIA, many hundreds of miles away, and colonised it. john doe.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The indigenous people were ruled as a conquered and colonised people.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH DELIVERED BY ANDRIES NEL - DEPUTY CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY] Reference

Those who attended came from the British-colonised part of the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE ANC,] Reference

Fritz, however, was not proceeding to any of these newly colonised countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

Ever noticed how the debate on African development is colonised by white men?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An important voice on African development] Reference

My own origins are Irish and as you know we were colonised not colonisers.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

The system has allowed of no overlapping between the coloniser and the colonised.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHURCH AND OUR STRUGGLE] Reference

Colonialism was the imposition of a foreign countries leadership on the colonised.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The colonised constitute the masses of the impoverished, the exploited and the voiceless.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHURCH AND OUR STRUGGLE] Reference

So we are fighting a regime that is maintaining, keeping, us in a status of the colonised.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW ON MAPUTO RADIO, JULY 11, 1983 (*) .] Reference

The book takes a different angle with its focus on the intellectual activity of the colonised people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of a new intellectual age] Reference

The political landscape has changed completely in the continent since then, as Africa was still colonised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address to the International Scientific Council for Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Research Control Conference] Reference

Since 1947, most of the colonised world has joined the community of free, sovereign and independent nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [WE ARE OF THE WORLD AND THE WORLD IS WITH US] Reference

The Moreton Bay district was first colonised from Sydney as a penal settlement for doubly convicted criminals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference

Orkney and Shetland colonised mainly from the fjords north of Bergen; see also Orkney and Caithness, earls of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference

At the beginning of the seventh century before our era the island of Corcyra had been colonised by the Corinthians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

Greenland was indeed Green and colonised by farmers from Scandinavia until the encroaching ice sheets covered their land.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

They have colonised the catwalks and the front rows; their clothes jostle on shop rails against those created by designers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogs on togs] Reference

The island having been recently purchased and colonised by Mr. Watson Taylor, he has built a house on it for his own residence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

The political struggle that emerged was not between capitalist and working class parties but between the colonised and coloniser.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING WORKERS AND UNIONS: THE ROLE OF THE ANC] Reference

Whatever nation they colonised amongst had to enforce strict laws and rigid punishments in defence of their own less shrewd people.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference

Iceland was colonised by a picked lot of Norwegians; by precisely those Norwegians who had this strength of will in its highest degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

Originally it belonged to the Etrurians, but was taken from them by the Ligurians, and colonised by the Romans about 170 years before the birth of our Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference