Found 2 items, similar to naturalize.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: naturalize naturalize v 1: make into a citizen; “The French family was naturalized last year” [syn: naturalise] [ant: denaturalize] 2: explain with reference to nature 3: adopt to another place; “The stories had become naturalized into an American setting” [syn: naturalise] 4: make more natural or lifelike [syn: naturalise] [ant: denaturalize] 5: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; “domesticate oats”; “tame the soil” [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalise, tame]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Naturalize 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words. [1913 Webster] 4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. [1913 Webster] Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\, v. i. 1. To become as if native. [1913 Webster] 2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. [1913 Webster] Infected by this naturalizing tendency. --H. Bushnell. [1913 Webster]