naturalize

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

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