denaturalize
动词 v.
英 /diːˈnæt(jə)ɹəlaɪz/|/diːˈnætʃəɹəlaɪz/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To revoke or deny the citizenship of.
— After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the principal party members were denaturalized and deported.
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To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
— 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.
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To cease to treat as natural.
— One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.
词汇关系
词源
From de- + naturalize.
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