verb🔗ShareTo grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen"After living in Canada for five years and meeting all the requirements, my aunt was naturalised as a Canadian citizen. "politicsgovernmentnationlawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb🔗ShareTo limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones"The science class naturalised the rainbow by explaining it as light refraction through water droplets, excluding any magical interpretations. "philosophysciencetheoryreligionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make (a word) a natural part of the language."English speakers have naturalized the French word "café"."languagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo study nature."The aspiring botanist naturalised by spending hours in the forest each day, carefully observing the local flora. "naturebiologyscienceecologyenvironmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading