naturalize
- Verb. To grant citizenship to someone born abroad.
- Verb. To acclimatize an animal or plant.
- Verb. To make to appear more natural.
- Verb. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
- Verb. (context, linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of (the language).
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