Meaning & use
naturalizing
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Granting a foreign-born person the full rights of citizenship in a new country.
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The government is naturalizing thousands of long-term immigrants this year.
The choir's arrangement had a way of naturalizing even the most formal hymn into something warm and familiar.
A note on using this word
In ecology, "naturalizing" also describes a non-native plant or animal becoming self-sustaining in a new habitat.
Another way to use it
2. verb
Introducing a non-native species so that it becomes established and self-sustaining in a new region.
Ecologists studied the effects of naturalizing the exotic grass in local wetlands.
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