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naturalize

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To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

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.

To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.

To become as if native.

To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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domesticate oats Source: Internet

tame the soil Source: Internet

The French family was naturalized last year Source: Internet

The stories had become naturalized into an American setting Source: Internet

Matheson goes to great lengths to rationalize or naturalize the vampire myth, transplanting the monster from the otherworldly realms of folklore and Victorian supernaturalism to the test tube of medical inquiry and rational causation. Source: Internet

Further, the intervener LNBA said the Alien and Nationality Law of Liberia provides that exclusive jurisdiction to naturalize persons as citizens of Liberia is conferred upon the circuit courts. Source: Internet

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