NATURALIZED

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Definition

verb

To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen
To acclimatize an animal or plant
To make natural
“Custom naturalizes labour or study.”
To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones
To make (a word) a natural part of the language.
“English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".”