• Denaturalize

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    • UK IPA: /diːˈnæt(jÉ™)ɹəlaɪz/, /diːˈnætʃəɹəlaɪz/

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    Verb

    1. To revoke or deny citizenship.After the regime fell the leader was executed and the priniciple party members were denaturalized and deported.
    2. To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
      • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge‎Henchard 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.

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