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Naturalize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To grant full citizenship to (one of foreign birth).

v. To adopt (something foreign) into general use.

v. To adapt or acclimate (a plant or animal) to a new environment; introduce and establish as if native.

v. To cause to conform to nature.

verb-intransitive. To become naturalized or acclimated; undergo adaptation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To grant citizenship to someone born abroad

v. To acclimatize an animal or plant

v. To make to appear more natural

v. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones

v. To make (a word) a natural part of (the language)

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make natural.

v. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.

v. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own.

v. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.

verb-intransitive. To become as if native.

verb-intransitive. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To reduce to a state of nature: identify with, or make a part of, nature.

To make natural; render easy and familiar by custom and habit.

To confer the rights and privileges of a natural subject or citizen upon; receive under sanction and form of law as a citizen or subject. See naturalization.

To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; incorporate into ormake part and parcel of a language; receive into the original or common stock: as, to naturalize a foreign word or expression.

So to adapt to new conditions of life that those conditions shall appear to be native to the person or thing naturalized; to introduce and acclimatize or cause to thrive as if indigenous: as, to naturalize a foreign plant or animal.

In musical notation, to apply a natural or cancel (♮) to.

To explain phenomena by natural laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.

To become like a native.

To become a citizen of another than one's native country. Also spelled naturalise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. adopt to another place

v. make into a citizen

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

v. make more natural or lifelike

v. explain with reference to nature

Word Usage

"We use the term naturalize, that is, to make natural born, in the same sense."

Antonym

supernaturalize

Verb Form

naturalized naturalizes naturalizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

accommodate adapt change modify alter

Cross Reference

enfranchise domesticate

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

adapt accustom habituate acclimate acclimatize