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Denaturize vs Denaturalize - What's the difference?

denaturize | denaturalize |

As verbs the difference between denaturize and denaturalize

is that denaturize is to denature while denaturalize is to revoke or deny citizenship.

denaturize

English

Verb

(denaturiz)
  • To denature.
  • denaturalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *denaturalise (UK )

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To revoke or deny citizenship.
  • After the regime fell the leader was executed and the priniciple party members were denaturalized and deported.
  • To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
  • * 1886 , Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge?
  • Henchard was, by original make, the last man to act stealthily, for good or for evil. But the solicitus timor of his love — the dependence upon Elizabeth's love into which he had declined (or, in another sense, to which he had advanced) — denaturalized him.

    See also

    * expatriate (1)