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denaturalized

denaturalized is the simple past and past participle of denaturalize.

Meaning of denaturalize

Verb

denaturalize (third-person singular simple present denaturalizes, present participle denaturalizing, simple past and past participle denaturalized)

  1. (transitive) To revoke or deny the citizenship of.
    • After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the principal party members were denaturalized and deported.
  2. (transitive) To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
    • 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.1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
  3. (transitive) To cease to treat as natural.
    • One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.2018, Lee Quinby, Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture, page 139

Questions about denaturalized

What is denaturalized the simple past and past participle of?
Denaturalized is the simple past and past participle of denaturalize.

Words near denaturalized in the dictionary

  1. denaturalises
  2. denaturalising
  3. denaturalization
  4. denaturalizations
  5. denaturalize
  6. denaturalized
  7. denaturalizes
  8. denaturalizing
  9. denaturant
  10. denaturants
  11. denaturate

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