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单词 recolonize
释义

recolonize

verb

re·​col·​o·​nize (ˌ)rē-ˈkä-lə-ˌnīz How to pronounce recolonize (audio)
recolonized; recolonizing; recolonizes

transitive verb

: to colonize (a previously colonized region or habitat) again
At the end of the ice age some 10,000 years ago, reindeer were among the first animals to recolonize northern Scandinavia. Bryan Alexander
The half-century's colonization of Normandy in the fifteenth century had been followed by plans to recolonize Ireland from about 1520 onward, but tentative efforts to put those plans into effect after 1550 had met with little success. David B. Quinn

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1765, in the meaning defined above

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