# naturalize

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈnæt͡ʃəɹəˌlaɪz/ · frequency rank #91,846

## Definitions
1. To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
2. To acclimatize an animal or plant.
3. To make natural.
4. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
5. To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).
6. To study nature.

## Etymology
From Middle French naturaliser. By surface analysis, natural + -ize.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/naturalize