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Naturalize

Naturalize Definition And Meaning
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"uralize\ (?; 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"uralize\, 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.

Naturalize Definition And Meaning

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

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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