Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to naturalize
Participle: naturalized
Gerund: naturalizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | naturalize |
| you | naturalize |
| he;she;it | naturalizes |
| we | naturalize |
| you | naturalize |
| they | naturalize |
Perfect
| I | have naturalized |
| you | have naturalized |
| he;she;it | has naturalized |
| we | have naturalized |
| you | have naturalized |
| they | have naturalized |
Past
| I | naturalized |
| you | naturalized |
| he;she;it | naturalized |
| we | naturalized |
| you | naturalized |
| they | naturalized |
Pluperfect
| I | had naturalized |
| you | had naturalized |
| he;she;it | had naturalized |
| we | had naturalized |
| you | had naturalized |
| they | had naturalized |
Future
| I | will naturalize |
| you | will naturalize |
| he;she;it | will naturalize |
| we | will naturalize |
| you | will naturalize |
| they | will naturalize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have naturalized |
| you | will have naturalized |
| he;she;it | will have naturalized |
| we | will have naturalized |
| you | will have naturalized |
| they | will have naturalized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | naturalize |
| you | naturalize |
| he;she;it | naturalize |
| we | naturalize |
| you | naturalize |
| they | naturalize |
Perfect
| I | have naturalized |
| you | have naturalized |
| he;she;it | have naturalized |
| we | have naturalized |
| you | have naturalized |
| they | have naturalized |
Imperfect
| I | naturalized |
| you | naturalized |
| he;she;it | naturalized |
| we | naturalized |
| you | naturalized |
| they | naturalized |
Pluperfect
| I | had naturalized |
| you | had naturalized |
| he;she;it | had naturalized |
| we | had naturalized |
| you | had naturalized |
| they | had naturalized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would naturalize |
| you | would naturalize |
| he;she;it | would naturalize |
| we | would naturalize |
| you | would naturalize |
| they | would naturalize |
Perfect
| I | would have naturalized |
| you | would have naturalized |
| he;she;it | would have naturalized |
| we | would have naturalized |
| you | would have naturalized |
| they | would have naturalized |
Imperative
| you | naturalize |
| we | Let's naturalize |
| you | naturalize |
Verbs conjugated like 'naturalize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'naturalize'
naturalise,
auralize,
denaturalize,
lateralize,
naturize,
neuralize,
renaturalize,
unnaturalize,
actualize,
casualize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle French naturaliser. By surface analysis, natural + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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Pakche was destroyed and five years later, Kokuryo was also swept away by T’ang and Silla. T’ang set up An-tontu-hu-fu (Government headquarters) at P’ing jang to rule the former territories of Pakche and Kokuryo. Many refugees from these destroyed states came to Japan and became naturalized as Japanese. [1964, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, “History”, in Japan: Its Land, People and Culture, Revised edition, Printing Bureau, Ministry of Finance, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:]
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Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. [1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 8, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:]
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Custom naturalizes labour or study.
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In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized.
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English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".
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English orthography often (but not invariably) drops the diacritics from words that it has naturalized from other languages.
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Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night." [1854, Somerton, The heiress of Somerton, page 226:]