- (v.t.) To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
- (v.i.) To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
- (v.t.) To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.
- (v.i.) To become as if native.
- (v.t.) To receive or adopt as native, natural or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
- (v.t.) To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
- (v.i.) To become as if native.
- (v.t.) To receive or adopt as native, natural or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
- (v.t.) To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
- (v.i.) To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
- (v.t.) To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.
- (v.t.) To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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