denaturalize

Verb

Meaning

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

denaturalise doctor water corrupt alloy degrade dilute contaminate pollute defile leaven canker disenfranchise debauch adulterate
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Antonyms

naturalize work produce chasten train adopt
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Hypernyms

change alter modify

Derivatives

denaturalized denaturalizing

Examples

The former Nazi was denaturalized Source: Internet

In 2015, the government filed to denaturalize a man who’d failed to disclose a conviction for aggregated sexual assault of a child when he applied for citizenship in 1996. Source: Internet

It can also help denaturalize these things, help us realize that there is nothing natural about the world in the way that it exists now, and if there’s nothing natural about the way it exists now, then we can imagine alternatives. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

denaturalisation denaturalise denaturalization denaturant denaturate denaturated