self-colonise

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of self-colonize.; To regain power after being colonized.
    — Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes.
  2. Alternative form of self-colonize.; To be introduced into an ecosystem via natural processes.
    — Elsewhere in the capital, new shoots are pushing up through the soil on a 460sq m (5,000sq ft) biodiverse green roof at Laban Dance Centre, in southeast London, where the roof has been left to self-colonise with a mixture of seed.

词形变化

self-colonises present,singular,third-person self-colonising participle,present self-colonised participle,past self-colonised past
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