Definition of "naturalizes" [naturalizes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of naturalize. (verb)

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• "He doesn't try to replace one vision by another but subtly transforms, "naturalizes" an older symbolic mode entirely."
• "While Jack's love for Janet temporarily "naturalizes" him, a forgotten arrangement with a poacher during Jack's citified phase precipitates his death--by precipitating him off an icy ridge--and causes Janet to collapse in raving madness, not soothed by the arrival of their illegitimate child."
• "As I cannot stress enough, when one "naturalizes" certain attitudes, trends or ideas, and combines the idea of "natural" with "good", the results are not very pretty."