naturalize
Pronunciation: /ˈnæt͡ʃəɹəˌlaɪz/
The English word “naturalize” has 6 meanings listed here.
verb
- To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
- To acclimatize an animal or plant.
- To make natural.
- To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
- 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).
- To study nature.
Etymology
From Middle French naturaliser. By surface analysis, natural + -ize.
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