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Naturalize

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Verb

1. naturalise, naturalize

make into a citizen

Example Sentences:
'The French family was naturalized last year'

2. naturalize

explain with reference to nature

3. naturalise, naturalize

adopt to another place

Example Sentences:
'The stories had become naturalized into an American setting'

4. naturalise, naturalize

make more natural or lifelike

5. cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame

adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

Example Sentences:
'domesticate oats'
'tame the soil'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Naturalize

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verb
1. (transitive)
to give citizenship to (a person of foreign birth)
2. 
to be or cause to be adopted in another place, as a word, custom, etc
3. (transitive)
to introduce (a plant or animal from another region) and cause it to adapt to local conditions
4. (intransitive)
(of a plant or animal) to adapt successfully to a foreign environment and spread there
5. (transitive)
to explain (something unusual) with reference to nature, excluding the supernatural
6. (transitive)
to make natural or more lifelike

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Naturalize

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈnaturalˌized or ˈnaturalˌizing
1. 
to confer the rights of citizenship upon (an alien)
2. 
to adopt and make common (a custom, word, etc.) from another country or place
3. 
to adapt (a plant or animal) to a new environment; acclimate
4. 
to explain (occurrences) by natural law, rejecting supernatural influence
5. 
to make natural or less artificial; free from conventionality
verb intransitive
6. 
to become naturalized, or as if native
7. 
to study nature

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Naturalize

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v. nat·u·ral·ized, nat·u·ral·iz·ing, nat·u·ral·iz·es
v.tr.
1. To grant full citizenship to (one of foreign birth).
2. To adopt (something foreign, such as a custom or a word from another language) into general use.
3. To introduce and establish (a species) in an environment to which it is not native: European birds that became naturalized in North America.
4. To explain (an occurrence, for example) by natural causes in contrast to supernatural causes.
v.intr.
To become naturalized or acclimated.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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