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Verb: decolonize  dee'kó-lu`nIz
  1. Grant independence to (a former colony)
    "West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960's"
    - decolonise [Brit]

Derived forms: decolonized, decolonizes, decolonizing

See also: decolonization

Type of: liberate, set free

Antonym: colonize

Encyclopedia: Decolonize

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