to naturalize
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- verb
- /ˈnæʧərəˌlaɪz/
- US
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naturalizar
- To create a more inviting atmosphere, the interior designer chose to naturalize the living room with plants and warm lighting.
Because that bundle of cultural and symbolic meanings has been naturalized, made to seem natural.
- Because that bundle of cultural and symbolic meanings has been naturalized, made to seem natural.
Examples
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Thus, Cervantes's novel naturalizes its novelistic representation of reality.
Academic text (1995) -
Like the postnational novel, local literature operates a constant reappraisal of the national identity category naturalized or rendered traditional by modernity.
Academic text (1995) -
Yet I also find them much easier to naturalize than Christianity.
Blog text (1) -
Orders from above are naturalized through images of the peasant as the will of the people.
Academic text (1990) -
Because that bundle of cultural and symbolic meanings has been naturalized, made to seem natural.
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His simple title contains a radical criticism of modern architecture's focus on object buildings set in a naturalized landscape.
Blog text (22) -
One function of rock outcrop integration was surely to naturalize Inka architecture, to make it an inextricable part of acquired territories.
Academic text (2007) -
As we see from the editors' comments, the presumption that a text can be naturalized as coherent is difficult to suppress.
Academic text (1995) -
The artist used soft brush strokes to naturalize the colors in her painting, making the landscape look more lifelike.
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The photographer adjusted the lighting to naturalize the skin tones of the model in the portrait.
Synonyms
To make something seem alive or able to move
Antonyms
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Naturalize comes from the word natural, which goes back to the Latin natura meaning 'birth' or 'nature'. So to naturalize a painting or an actor's movement is to make it look as if it was 'born' in nature, lifelike and normal.