v. t. - To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
v. t. - To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.
v. t. - To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
v. t. - To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
v. i. - To become as if native.
v. i. - To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.