Meaning Of Naturalize

v. t.

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

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 receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

v. t.

To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.

v. i.

To become as if native.

v. i.

To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.