naturalize

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
To acclimatize an animal or plant.
To make natural.
To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).
To study nature.

/ˈnæt͡ʃəɹəˌlaɪz/ /ˈnæt͡ʃɹəˌlaɪz/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-naturalize.wav

naturalize naturalizes naturalizing naturalized naturalise

From Middle French naturaliser. By surface analysis, natural + -ize.

paronymize

denaturalize exile expatriate other supernaturalize

approximation hyperforeignism loanword unadapted borrowing

connaturalize disnaturalize naturalizable naturalized naturalization naturalizer renaturalize

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