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Denaturalize
//diːˈnæt(jə)ɹəlaɪz// verb
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Verb
- 1 To revoke or deny the citizenship of. transitive
"After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the principal party members were denaturalized and deported."
- 2 strip of the rights and duties of citizenship wordnet
- 3 To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature. transitive
"Henchard was, by original make, the last man to act stealthily, for good or for evil. But the solicitus timor of his love — the dependence upon Elizabeth's love into which he had declined (or, in another sense, to which he had advanced) — denaturalized him."
- 4 make less natural or unnatural wordnet
- 5 To cease to treat as natural. transitive
"One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence."
Etymology
From de- + naturalize.
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