verb
- Make into a citizen.
- usage: "The French family was naturalized last year"
- synonyms: naturalise
- Explain with reference to nature.
- Adopt to another place.
- usage: "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting"
- synonyms: naturalise
- Make more natural or lifelike.
- synonyms: naturalise
- Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.
- usage: "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
- synonyms: domesticate, cultivate, naturalise, tame
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