Colonise

verb

1. To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
2. To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
3. To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
4. To begin a colony or colonies.
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.