Naturalized vs Denaturalized - What's the difference?
naturalized | denaturalized |
(naturalize)
To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen
To acclimatize an animal or plant
* Hawthorne
To make natural
To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones
(linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of the language.
(denaturalize)
To revoke or deny citizenship.
To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
* 1886 , Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge?
As verbs the difference between naturalized and denaturalized
is that naturalized is (naturalize) while denaturalized is (denaturalize).naturalized
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*naturalisedVerb
(head)naturalize
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* naturaliseVerb
(en-verb)- Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
- Custom naturalizes labour or study.
- English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".
Usage notes
In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized .Antonyms
* supernaturalizeReferences
denaturalized
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(head)denaturalize
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*denaturalise (UK )Verb
(en-verb)- After the regime fell the leader was executed and the priniciple party members were denaturalized and deported.
- 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.