To send (a person) to live in a colony (rare); to accustom (a person) to the culture and life of a colony. rare after 19th century.

To bring (the inhabitants of another country) under political and economic control as part of a colony; to subject (a people or nation) to colonial rule or influence.

In extended use: to make (a country or people) politically or economically reliant on another country in a way reminiscent of colonization; to dominate (the economy or politics) of a country or people.

To settle (a place, region, etc.) with colonists as part of an effort by a state or ruler to appropriate the area settled and establish political control over it; to establish a colony or colonies in (a place, region, etc.).

To give (a building, room, etc.) features characteristic of the period of British colonial rule in America; to build, furnish, decorate, etc., in a colonial style.

To dominate (an event, place, etc.); to be the largest or most significant thing in (an event, place, etc.).

To subject (something) to modes of colonialist thought; (now usually) to consider or interpret (something) in a way considered typical of a white, privileged, western society without taking other backgrounds or cultures into account.