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[nach-er-uh-lahyz, nach-ruh-] 
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| Main Entry: |
naturalize
[nach-er-uh-lahyz, nach-ruh-]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confer citizenship upon |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, accustom, adapt, adopt, conform |
| Notes: | nationalize means to put under state control or ownership, while naturalize means make into a citizen or adopt to another place |
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| Main Entry: | adopt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | legally care for another's child |
| Synonyms: | choose, foster, naturalize, pick, raise, select, take in |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become different |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, alternate, commute, convert, diminish, diverge, diversify, evolve, fluctuate, make innovations, make over, merge, metamorphose, moderate, modify, modulate, mutate, naturalize, recondition, redo, reduce, reform, regenerate, remake, remodel, renovate, reorganize, replace, resolve, restyle, revolutionize, shape, shift, substitute, tamper with, temper, transfigure, transform, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, vacillate, vary, veer, warp |
| Antonyms: | continue, hold, keep, persist, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | domesticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tame; habituate |
| Synonyms: | acclimatize, accustom, break, break in, breed, bring up, bust, corral, domiciliate, familiarize, gentle, herd, hitch, housetrain, naturalize, raise, reclaim, round up, subdue, teach, train, yoke |
| Main Entry: | enfranchise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free |
| Synonyms: | citizenize, emancipate, empower, free, give rights to, grant citizenship to, liberate, manumit, naturalize, release |
| Antonyms: | enslave |
| Main Entry: | familiarize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become acquainted with, knowledgeable about |
| Synonyms: | accustom, adapt, adjust, awaken to, become adept in, become aware of, break the ice, bring into use, case*, check out, coach, come to know, condition, enlighten, gain friendship, get in, get lay of land, get lowdown on, get to know, get together, get with it, habituate, inform, instruct, inure, let down hair, let know, let next to, make conversant, make used to, mix, naturalize, popularize, post, prime, put on to, school, season, tip off, train, use, wont |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | domesticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
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Adjectives: |
| Concept: | [Difference at different times] Change. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE CHANGE |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break., transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative., conversion (gradual change); revolution (sudden or radical change); inversion (reversal); displacement; transference., changeableness; tergiversation (change of mind).
-verbs
change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume., work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes., innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf., recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.
-adjectives
changed; newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative.
-adverbs
mutatis mutandis ["The necessary changes having been made" (Latin)].
-phrases
"a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons changé tout cela [Molière. "We have changed all that" (French)]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis ["The times are changed even as we are changed in them" (Latin)]; non sum qualis eram [Horace. "I am not as I used to be" (Latin)]; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus. "Bodies grow slowly but are snuffed out quickly" (Latin)]; in statu quo ante bellum ["In the state in which it was before the war" (Latin)]; "still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet ["The voice heard vanishes, the letter written
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| Antonyms: | permanence |
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