naturalizing

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naturalizing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     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.
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     3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
        make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
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     4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
        cause to grow as under natural conditions.
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              Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
              yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
                                                    --Hawthorne.
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