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 cannot speak for other regions that Britain colonized, but I can provide some perspective from India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

What Edward Said called the colonized and the colonizers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Countercurrents.org] Reference

The real issue is that some Zionists appear to believe that fattening the colonized is a remedial tactic when it's not even palliative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ahmed Moor: West Bank Prosperity Is a Myth] Reference

They are unavoidable in languages of "colonized" people.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GAELIC IN THE EU.] Reference

It is hard to imagine Giffords shouting "Viva la Raza" and ditching her "colonized" name for Xocoyotl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

Resource-rich nations don't want to be "colonized" by China, he reportedly added and decried what he sees as China's protectionist stance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Immelt, GE CEO: Resource-Rich Countries Don't Want To Be 'Colonized' By China] Reference

Legislature was similarly chosen by Pro-Slavery voters "colonized" from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1] Reference

They were "colonized" and their lands taken away from them and given to Englishmen over and over again, in exactly the same manner that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal"] Reference

People freak out about having to press 'one for English' and the nativist fringe even thinks the country is being 'colonized' by Latinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

"colonized" populations we got a chance to observe in other countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

He has seized and colonized Cochin China and Annam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The Cayman Islands were colonized from Jamaica by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Japan seized the islands in 1895 when it colonized Taiwan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Dispute Defers China Visit To Japan] Reference

The uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Independence: 1238 (traditional founding date; never colonized).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

But Naipaul's pity is not reserved exclusively for the colonized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Meets World] Reference

Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

The alien had colonized a bit of my lung as well as quite a bit of my lymph node.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hitchens On Cancer: Hair Loss, 'Chemo-Poison,' & The 'Alien' Inside Him] Reference

His boldness ensured that, unlike its neighbors, Thailand would never be colonized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Treatment] Reference

So they are greatly disturbed because, in a profound way, they are colonized people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling It As He Sees It] Reference

If bees have already colonized the walls of your home, this is also a job for experts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bees moving in? Call an expert] Reference

Away from the self-assured, as well, who have always colonized poverty and do it again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morning Poem] Reference

Previously colonized by the Dutch, Indonesians detect Saudi cultural imperialism today.    From Wordnik.com.  [E Pluribis Islam?] Reference

The citizens of these formerly colonized nations have to learn to handle freedom itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Shy woodland birds, such as goshawks, first colonized major cities a couple of decades ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Jungles] Reference

As the rock dust is colonized by life forms that gradually build in numbers it becomes soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Suddenly an expanse of new, un-colonized land is available; new food sources will grow there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Newton: Darwin Was Not Wrong--New Study Being Distorted] Reference

Western nations colonized African countries, enslaved and killed people and exploited their land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: The Darfur Tragedy] Reference

They, having colonized this mountain, are at present causing the Turkish government much trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference

The Cayman Islands were colonized from Jamaica by the British during the 18th and 19th centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

First colonized by the Spanish, the islands came under British control in the early 19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In the northern island groups -- Tonga, Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, and others -- which are colonized by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Some trace it back to the arrival of German settlers who colonized great swaths of the Volga plain in the 17th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Ostpolitik] Reference

But the thing about French food that used to exist stopped existing when the Americans colonized Montparnasse in the 1930s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan’s Worst Beats France’s Best] Reference

The oldest active international treaty in the civilized world, it came long before Europeans had even colonized North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT HE LEFT BEHIND] Reference

In what form did the "" decency '' of English governance manifest itself when the English colonized the New World, India and South Africa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flirting With The Bomb] Reference