Naturalize

Nat´u`ral`ize

v. t.	1.	To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. [imp. & p. p. Naturalized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing .]
	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.
	3.	To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
	4.	To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. - Hawthorne.
v. i.	1.	To become as if native.
	2.	To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural. Infected by this naturalizing tendency. - H. Bushnell.

Verb	1.	naturalize - make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" Synonyms: naturalise Antonyms: denaturalise, denaturalize - strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; "The former Nazi was denaturalized"
	2.	naturalize - explain with reference to nature
	3.	naturalize - adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" Synonyms: naturalise
	4.	naturalize - make more natural or lifelike Synonyms: naturalise Antonyms: denaturalise, denaturalize - make less natural or unnatural
	5.	naturalize - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" Synonyms: domesticate, tame, cultivate, naturalise