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