Word
Naturalize
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
nat-u-ral-ize
Definition
- v. t. - To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or
study.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To receive or adopt as native, natural, or
vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
- v. t. - To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate;
to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
- v. i. - To become as if native.
- v. i. - To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to
the exclusion of the supernatural.
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