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naturalize 音标拼音: [n'ætʃɚəl,ɑɪz] [n'ætʃrəl,ɑɪz] v. 使归化;移植;采纳 使归化;移植;采纳 naturalize v 1: make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" [synonym: {naturalize}, {naturalise}] [ant: {denaturalise}, {denaturalize}] 2: explain with reference to nature 3: adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" [synonym: {naturalize}, {naturalise}] 4: make more natural or lifelike [synonym: {naturalize}, {naturalise}] [ant: {denaturalise}, {denaturalize}] 5: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [synonym: {domesticate}, {cultivate}, {naturalize}, {naturalise}, {tame}] 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] 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] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalize": Americanize, Anglicize, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, acculturate, acculturize, accustom, adapt, adjust, admit, adopt, affiliate, 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
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