Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
- 4transitive verb
To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
- 5intransitive verb
To become as if native.
- 6intransitive verb
To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
- 7verb
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
"domesticate oats"
"tame the soil"
- 8verb
make into a citizen
"The French family was naturalized last year"
Synonyms
- 9verb
make more natural or lifelike
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- 10verb
adopt to another place
"The stories had become naturalized into an American setting"
Synonyms
- 11verb
explain with reference to nature
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