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To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.transitive
- Pakche was destroyed and five years later, Kokuryo was also swept away by T’ang and Silla. T’ang set up An-tontu-hu-fu (Government headquarters) at P’ing jang to rule the former territories of Pakche and Kokuryo. Many refugees from these de
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To acclimatize an animal or plant.transitive
- Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
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To make natural.
- Custom naturalizes labour or study.
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To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.transitive
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To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).transitive
- In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized.
- English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".
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To study nature.intransitivetransitive
- Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night."
ant. denaturalize · exile · expatriate · other · supernaturalize