naturalize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen. transitive
    — Pakche was destroyed and five years later, Kokuryo was also swept away by T’ang and Silla. T’ang set up An-tontu-hu-fu (Government headquarters) at P’ing jang to rule the former territories of Pakche and Kokuryo. Many refugees from these destroyed states came to Japan and became naturalized as Japanese.
  2. To acclimatize an animal or plant. transitive
    — Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
  3. To make natural.
    — Custom naturalizes labour or study.
  4. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones. transitive
  5. To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections). transitive
    — In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized.
  6. To study nature. intransitive,transitive
    — Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night."

词形变化

naturalizes present,singular,third-person naturalizing participle,present naturalized participle,past naturalized past naturalise alternative

词汇关系

反义词
denaturalize exile expatriate other supernaturalize
衍生词
connaturalize disnaturalize naturalizable naturalized naturalization naturalizer renaturalize
相关词
approximation hyperforeignism loanword unadapted borrowing

词源

From Middle French naturaliser. By surface analysis, natural + -ize.
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