The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recolonize
Recolonize \Re*col"o*nize\ (r?*k?l"?*n?z), v. t. To colonize again.
Wiktionary
recolonize
vb. To colonize again, especially after decolonization.
Usage examples of "recolonize".
Vegetation had recolonized abandoned landscapes, roots breaking up concrete and asphalt, overgrowing ditches and canals.
As she neared the Sub-Urb itself, cheap, pre-fab Galplas houses with carefully tended yards and the occasional small vegetable patch clustered in neighborhoods around a couple of large manufacturing plants, where plant employees who had seen the surface in their twice daily bus rides to and from the Urb were gradually recolonizing the surface in search of sunshine and fresh air.
Of course, there was the problem of the Hatire who had been recolonizing the planet.