naturalize
/ˈnæt͡ʃəɹəˌlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate."
- "Custom naturalizes labour or study."
- "In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized."
- "English speakers have naturalized the French word "café"."
- "English orthography often (but not invariably) drops the diacritics from words that it has naturalized from other languages."
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unadapted borrowing