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Definition of Denaturalize

1. Verb. Make less natural or unnatural.

2. Verb. Strip of the rights and duties of citizenship. "The former Nazi was denaturalized"

Definition of Denaturalize

1. v. t. To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

Definition of Denaturalize

1. Verb. To revoke or deny citizenship. ¹

2. Verb. To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Denaturalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Denaturalize

denationalising denationalization denationalize denationalized denationalizes denationalizing denatonium denatonium benzoate denaturability denaturable

denaturalisation denaturalisations denaturalise denaturalization denaturalizations denaturalize (current term) denaturalized denaturalizes denaturalizing denaturant

denaturants denaturated denaturation denaturation temperature of DNA denaturations denature denatured denatured alcohol denatured protein denatures

Literary usage of Denaturalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Pacific by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1914)
"That the Chinese if freely admitted will possess and denaturalize America, we need no more fear than that the African, or Irish, or Italians, or Mexican, ..."

2. The Organization of Labor in Accordance with Custom and the Law of the by Frédéric Le Play (1872)
""The same individual in whom we all recognize, up to his last hour, the right to dispose of, denaturalize, and even to destroy all his property, ..."

3. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1898)
"Bethink you that you have to deal with plebs, The commonalty ; this is an episode In burgess-life, — why seek to aggrandize, Idealize, denaturalize the ..."

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