'Naturalize' definitions:
Definition of 'naturalize'
From: WordNet
verb
Make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize]
verb
Explain with reference to nature
verb
Adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" [syn: naturalize, naturalise]
verb
verb
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame]
Definition of 'Naturalize'
From: GCIDE
- Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\, v. i.
- 1. To become as if native. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. [1913 Webster]
- Infected by this naturalizing tendency. --H. Bushnell. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Naturalize'
From: GCIDE
- Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Naturalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing.] [Cf. F. naturaliser. See Natural.]
- 1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. [1913 Webster]
- Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'naturalize'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acclimate,
- acclimatize,
- accommodate,
- acculturate,
- acculturize,
- accustom,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- admit,
- adopt,
- affiliate,
- Americanize,
- Anglicize,
- assimilate,
- assimilate to,
- become,
- break,
- break in,
- bring to,
- case harden,
- change,
- change into,
- change over,
- condition,
- confer citizenship,
- confirm,
- convert,
- do over,
- domesticate,
- domesticize,
- establish,
- familiarize,
- fix,
- gentle,
- go native,
- habituate,
- harden,
- housebreak,
- inure,
- make,
- make over,
- orient,
- orientate,
- reconvert,
- reduce to,
- render,
- resolve into,
- reverse,
- season,
- shift,
- switch,
- switch over,
- tame,
- train,
- transform,
- turn back,
- turn into,
- wont
Words containing 'Naturalize'
- Natural,
- Naturalism,
- Naturality,
- Naturalization,
- Naturalized,
- Naturalizing,
- Naturally,
- Naturalness,
- Nature,
- Natured,
- Naturism,
- Naturity,
- Naturize,
- by nature,
- Debt of nature,
- Good nature,
- Ill nature,
- In a state of nature,
- Law of nature,
- Natural Bridge,
- Natural Harmony,
- Natural day,
- Natural draught,
- Natural father,
- Natural fats,
- Natural gas,
- Natural history,
- Natural law,
- Natural logarithm,
- Natural magic,
- Natural modulation,
- Natural order,
- Natural person,
- Natural philosophy,
- Natural product,
- Natural religion,
- Natural scale,
- Natural science,
- Natural selection,
- Natural sines,
- Natural steel,
- Natural system,
- Natural tangent,
- Natural theology,
- Natural vowel,
- Nature printing,
- Nature worship,
- animal nature,
- evil nature,
- human nature,
- inner nature,
- natural ability,
- natural action,
- natural childbirth,
- natural covering,
- natural depression,
- natural elevation,
- natural enclosure,
- natural endowment,
- natural event,
- natural family,
- natural fiber,
- natural fibre,
- natural glass,
- natural immunity,
- natural indigo,
- natural language,
- natural magnet,
- natural number,
- natural object,
- natural phenomenon,
- natural process,
- natural resin,
- natural resource,
- natural resources,
- natural right,
- natural rubber,
- natural scientist,
- natural shape,
- natural spring,
- natural state,
- natural virtue,
- natural world,
- naturally occurring,
- nature study,
- second nature,
- state of nature,
- Fair-natured,
- Good-nature,
- Good-natured,
- Good-naturedly,
- Ill-natured,
- Ill-naturedly,
- Natural Bridge, AL,
- Natural Bridge, NY,
- Natural product chemistry,
- To pay the debt of nature,
- Well-natured,
- ill-nature,
- immigration and naturalization service,
- natural family planning,
- natural language processing,
- natural language processor,
- natural yellow 8,
- natural language processing application,
- royal society of london for improving natural knowledge