colonizing

verb

1. 1.To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
2. 2.To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
3. 3.To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
4. 4.To begin a colony or colonies.
5. 5.(by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.