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naturalism |
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naturality |
naturalization |
naturalize
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| naturally
| naturally occurring
| naturalness
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naturalize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb naturalize has 5 senses
- naturalize(v = verb.change) naturalise - make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" is one way to alter, change, modify
- naturalize(v = verb.communication) Array - explain with reference to nature; Array is one way to explain, explicate
- naturalize(v = verb.change) naturalise - adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" is one way to accommodate, adapt
- naturalize(v = verb.change) naturalise - make more natural or lifelike; Array is one way to alter, change, modify
- naturalize(v = verb.change) cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" is one way to accommodate, adapt
Antonym: denaturalize
Derived form noun naturalization2
Sample sentence:
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Derived form noun naturalization4
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Antonym: denaturalize
Derived form noun naturalization1
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Derived forms noun naturalization3, noun naturalization1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
naturalize, v. t. [Cf. F. naturaliser. See Natural.].
- To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words. [1913 Webster]
- To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. [1913 Webster]"Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate." [1913 Webster]
naturalize, v. i.
- To become as if native. [1913 Webster]
- To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. [1913 Webster]"Infected by this naturalizing tendency." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
naturalize, v. (also -ise)
1 tr. admit (a foreigner) to the citizenship of a country.
2 tr. introduce (an animal, plant, etc.) into another region so that it flourishes in the wild.
3 tr. adopt (a foreign word, custom, etc.).
4 intr. become naturalized.
5 tr. Philos. exclude from the miraculous; explain naturalistically.
6 tr. free from conventions; make natural.
7 tr. cause to appear natural.
8 intr. study natural history.
1 tr. admit (a foreigner) to the citizenship of a country.
2 tr. introduce (an animal, plant, etc.) into another region so that it flourishes in the wild.
3 tr. adopt (a foreign word, custom, etc.).
4 intr. become naturalized.
5 tr. Philos. exclude from the miraculous; explain naturalistically.
6 tr. free from conventions; make natural.
7 tr. cause to appear natural.
8 intr. study natural history.
Derivative
naturalization n.
Etymology
F naturaliser (as NATURAL)
THESAURUS
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, wontROGET THESAURUS
naturalize
Habit
VB be wont, fall into a rut, fall into a custom, tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten, stare super antiquas vias, move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way, habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden, accustom, familiarize, naturalize, acclimatize, keep one's hand in, train, get into the way, get into the knack of, learn, cling to, adhere to, repeat, acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick, addict oneself to, take to, get into, be habitual, prevail, come into use, become a habit, take root, gain upon one, grow upon one.Location
VB place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install, house, stow, establish, fix, pin, root, graft, plant, shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit, cradle, moor, tether, picket, pack, tuck in, embed, imbed, vest, invest in, billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, lade, freight, pocket, put up, bag, inhabit, domesticate, colonize, take root, strike root, anchor, cast anchor, come to an anchor, sit down, settle down, settle, take up one's abode, take up one's quarters, plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself, squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing, encamp, pitch one's tent, put up at, put up one's horses at, keep house, endenizen, naturalize, adopt, put back, replace.
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