1. Verb
To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
2. 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. Verb
To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
4. Verb
To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
5. Verb
To become as if native.
6. Verb
To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
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