1. Grant independence to (a former colony)
   "West Africa was decolonised in the early 1960's"
   - decolonize

Derived forms: decolonises, decolonising, decolonised

See also: decolonisation [Brit]

Type of: liberate, set free

Antonym: colonise [Brit]

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