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Naturalize   /nˈætʃərəlˌaɪz/  /nˈætʃrəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Naturalize

verb
(past & past part. naturalized; pres. part. naturalizing)
1.
Make into a citizen.  Synonym: naturalise.
2.
Explain with reference to nature.
3.
Adopt to another place.  Synonym: naturalise.
4.
Make more natural or lifelike.  Synonym: naturalise.
5.
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.  Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame.  "Tame the soil"





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"Naturalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher [Fr.], bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house. endenizen^, naturalize, adopt. put back, replace &c (restore) 660. Adj. placed &c v.; situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed^, rooted; domesticated; vested in, unremoved^. moored ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... of this artificial type. After Scott's outdoor romances appeared, Cooper discovered his talent, and wrote The Spy and the Leather-Stocking tales. Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen began to improve or naturalize the English novel before Scott attempted it.] That Scott was influenced by this inane fashion appears plainly in some of his characters, his fine ladies especially, who pose and sentimentalize till we are mortally weary of them; but this influence passed when he discovered his real power, which ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long


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