naturalize

naturalize is a 10-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
4. transitive verb. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
5. intransitive verb. To become as if native.
6. intransitive verb. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
7. verb. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

   "domesticate oats"

   "tame the soil"

   Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame

8. verb. make into a citizen

   "The French family was naturalized last year"

   Synonyms: naturalise

9. verb. make more natural or lifelike

   Synonyms: naturalise

10. verb. adopt to another place

    "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting"

    Synonyms: naturalise

11. verb. explain with reference to nature

Synonyms

cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame

Common word forms

naturalized, naturalizer, naturalizes, naturalizing

Words from these letters

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