About The Word Naturalize
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Naturalize
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What's The Definition Of Naturalize?
[v] adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
[v] make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" [v] make more natural or lifelike [v] adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" [v] explain with reference to nature Synonyms | Synonyms for Naturalize: cultivate | domesticate | naturalise | tame Related Terms | Find terms related to Naturalize: acclimate | acclimatize | accommodate | acculturate | acculturize | accustom | adapt | adjust | admit | adopt | affiliate | Americanize | Anglicize | 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 See Also | accommodate | adapt | alter | change | explain | explicate | immigrate Naturalize In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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.
3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
cause to grow as under natural conditions.
Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
--Hawthorne.
\Nat"u*ral*ize\, v. i. 1. To become as if native. 2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. Infected by this naturalizing tendency. --H. Bushnell. |
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