naturalize 音标拼音: [n'ætʃɚəl
, ɑɪz] [n'ætʃrəl
, ɑɪz]
v . 使归化;移植;采纳
使归化;移植;采纳
naturalize v 1 :
make into a citizen ; "
The French family was naturalized last year " [
synonym : {
naturalize }, {
naturalise }] [
ant :
{
denaturalise }, {
denaturalize }]
2 :
explain with reference to nature 3 :
adopt to another place ; "
The stories had become naturalized into an American setting " [
synonym : {
naturalize }, {
naturalise }]
4 :
make more natural or lifelike [
synonym : {
naturalize },
{
naturalise }] [
ant : {
denaturalise }, {
denaturalize }]
5 :
adapt (
a wild plant or unclaimed land )
to the environment ;
"
domesticate oats "; "
tame the soil " [
synonym : {
domesticate },
{
cultivate }, {
naturalize }, {
naturalise }, {
tame }]
Naturalize \
Nat "
u *
ral *
ize \ (?;
135 ),
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p .
{
Naturalized };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Naturalizing }.] [
Cf .
F .
naturaliser .
See {
Natural }.]
1 .
To make natural ;
as ,
custom naturalizes labor or study .
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2 .
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 .
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3 .
To receive or adopt as native ,
natural ,
or vernacular ;
to make one '
s own ;
as ,
to naturalize foreign words .
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4 .
To adapt ;
to accustom ;
to habituate ;
to acclimate ;
to cause to grow as under natural conditions .
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Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate .
--
Hawthorne .
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Naturalize \
Nat "
u *
ral *
ize \,
v .
i .
1 .
To become as if native .
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2 .
To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws ,
to the exclusion of the supernatural .
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Infected by this naturalizing tendency . --
H .
Bushnell .
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58 Moby Thesaurus words for "
naturalize ":
Americanize ,
Anglicize ,
acclimate ,
acclimatize ,
accommodate ,
acculturate ,
acculturize ,
accustom ,
adapt ,
adjust ,
admit ,
adopt ,
affiliate ,
assimilate ,
assimilate to ,
become ,
break ,
break in ,
bring to ,
case harden ,
change ,
change into ,
change over ,
condition ,
confer citizenship ,
confirm ,
convert ,
do over ,
domesticate ,
domesticize ,
establish ,
familiarize ,
fix ,
gentle ,
go native ,
habituate ,
harden ,
housebreak ,
inure ,
make ,
make over ,
orient ,
orientate ,
reconvert ,
reduce to ,
render ,
resolve into ,
reverse ,
season ,
shift ,
switch ,
switch over ,
tame ,
train ,
transform ,
turn back ,
turn into ,
wont
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