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English Dictionary: naturalize	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for naturalize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
naturalize v make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" Synonym(s): naturalize, naturalise Antonym(s): denaturalise, denaturalize explain with reference to nature adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" Synonym(s): naturalize, naturalise make more natural or lifelike Synonym(s): naturalize, naturalise Antonym(s): denaturalise, denaturalize adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" Synonym(s): domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Naturalize \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Naturalize \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.