to denaturalize

Examples

• All

• The documentary sought to denaturalize cultural stereotypes by presenting stories from individuals of various backgrounds.

• In her lecture, she discussed how social norms can denaturalize the idea of gender by challenging conventional definitions.

• Future geographical work may move forward by denaturalizing both race and environment in a manner that does justice to the complexity of both.

  Academic text (2006)

• Particular emphasis is placed on the social construction of risk, joining the chorus that seeks to denaturalize "natural" hazards.

  Academic text (2006)

• But the illusion, of course, had to be sufficiently harmful that denaturalizing it alone was a task worth achieving.

• It is important to note that starting with the period of World War I, many European states began to introduce laws that permitted their own citizens to be denaturalized and denationalized.

  Academic text (1995)

• Appropriating right-wingers' celebrations as part of his artwork denaturalized the kind of traditions and symbols that they hold dear as part of their heritage.

  Academic text (2005)

• Unsettle seemingly unshakable infrastructures and denaturalized systems of control and confinement.

• Improving the health and lives of women, as well as infants, will require continued work to contextualize and denaturalize motherhood and ongoing efforts to keep women's needs and rights on the agenda.

  Academic text (2005)

• I would add, though, that one of the functions of the narrative in this novel is to denaturalize these narrative understandings—that is, to lay bare the obscured genealogies of the past. WORKS CITED

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

B

to bastardize

vsto denaturalize

• Informal

4 8.2

To make something lower quality by changing it from its original form

makes something less natural by harming purity or quality

D

to denature

vsto denaturalize

• Specialized

1 7.4

Make a protein lose its natural shape so it stops working

makes something less natural in a general nontechnical way

Antonyms

N

to naturalize

• US

1 6.0

To make something look like real life

How Artificial

to denaturalize

• Specialized

9.1

to replace

∞ 1.8

to modify

268 3.2

to alter

493 2.5

tweak

28 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology