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What is the verb for nature?

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naturalize
  1. To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen
  2. To acclimatize an animal or plant
  3. To make natural
  4. To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones
  5. (linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of the language.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “In other words, countries cannot, for example, allow European immigrants to naturalize while barring Haitians.”
      “Muscari planted in a favorable location where no water can settle during the winter can naturalize easily in climatic zones 4-8.”
      “The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas.”
naturize
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Butler was President and CEO of Naturize BioSciences, which specialized in biological treatments for the turf, crop and plant care markets.”
naturalise
  1. Alternative spelling of naturalize
  2. Examples:
    1. “The overcut bog adjacent to the farmland has been allowed to naturalise becoming an attraction and haven for wildlife.”
      “Development theories complement official development policies, and also naturalise and legitimise underdevelopment.”
      “We're hoping that the next garden will have a spot where we can safely plant a few corms to naturalise and spread out.”
nature
  1. (obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
naturalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of naturalise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Landscape has relevance here because it naturalises in material form the values of the powerful, marking out moral geographies that exclude and exile feared social groups.”
naturalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of naturalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is the universally known species that naturalizes very easily, especially in moist soil that supplies sufficient nutrients.”
      “More important, though, Japanese mass culture somehow naturalizes gaijin forms without integrating them.”
      “In functional terms, workfare naturalizes and normalizes such job market conditions.”
naturizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of naturize
naturalised
  1. (Britain) simple past tense and past participle of naturalise
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Unlike those around him, the naturalised German citizen's only physical ailment was jet lag.”
      “It would be aimed at one person, although it would be worded to cover all naturalised Indians.”
      “It's an Australian plant naturalised in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold.”
naturalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of naturalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The cards objectified women, they fetishized exoticism, and they naturalized children's uninhibited sexuality.”
      “The paradox at the heart of modern adoption is that it both naturalized and denaturalized kinship.”
      “The specially treated multiflora hyacinths are also beautiful when naturalized and can provide long-lasting color.”
naturized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of naturize
naturalising
  1. present participle of naturalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Grape hyacinths or Muscari are useful spring-flowering bulbs for containers or for naturalising under shrubs and among other spring bulbs.”
      “Crocus look great planted in drifts of one or more colours and are superb for naturalising.”
      “Good specimens for naturalising in grass include crocus, narcissi, muscari, camassia, erythronium, snowdrops, scilla and ornithogalum.”
naturalizing
  1. present participle of naturalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This is always good advice for planting bulbs, and is essential for naturalizing or perennializing.”
      “It is a very good plant for naturalizing in moist, sheltered, half-shaded locations.”
      “The bluebell, which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing.”
naturizing
  1. present participle of naturize
naturing
  1. present participle of nature
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