What is to receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words called?
naturalize — To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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