Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\, v. i.
1. To become as if native.
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2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the
exclusion of the supernatural.
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Infected by this naturalizing tendency. --H.
Bushnell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Naturalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing.] [Cf. F.
naturaliser. See Natural.]
1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
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2. 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.
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3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
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4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
cause to grow as under natural conditions.
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Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
--Hawthorne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
naturalize
v 1: make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last
year" [syn: naturalise] [ant: denaturalize]
2: explain with reference to nature
3: adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized
into an American setting" [syn: naturalise]
4: make more natural or lifelike [syn: naturalise] [ant: denaturalize]
5: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;
"domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate,
naturalise, tame]
WordNet (r) 2.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalize":
Americanize, Anglicize, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate,
acculturate, acculturize, accustom, adapt, adjust, admit, adopt,
affiliate, assimilate, assimilate to, become, break, break in,
bring to, case harden, change, change into, change over, condition,
confer citizenship, confirm, convert, do over, domesticate,
domesticize, establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, go native,
habituate, harden, housebreak, inure, make, make over, orient,
orientate, reconvert, reduce to, render, resolve into, reverse,
season, shift, switch, switch over, tame, train, transform,
turn back, turn into, wont
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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