Naturalize

['nætʃ(ə)rəlaɪz] or ['nætʃrəlaɪz]

Definition

(verb.) make into a citizen; 'The French family was naturalized last year'.

(verb.) make more natural or lifelike.

(verb.) adopt to another place; 'The stories had become naturalized into an American setting'.

(verb.) explain with reference to nature.

Typed by Greta--From WordNet

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.

Checker: Raffles

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Adopt as a citizen, adopt as native.

Typist: Tim