denaturalizing

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