denaturalise

/di:'nætʃrəlaiz/ Cách viết khác : (denaturalise) /di:'nætʃrəlaiz/

Thân thiện

The government moved to denaturalise the individual for fraud.

Definition

1. Verb (transitive):
   • To deprive (someone) of citizenship or nationality: To legally remove the rights and status of being a citizen of a country.
   • To make unnatural: To alter the natural character or qualities of something.

Usage and Examples

• Verb (depriving citizenship):

  • The government can denaturalise a citizen who obtained citizenship through fraud.
  • The court's ruling was to denaturalise the individual for acts of treason.

• Verb (making unnatural):

  • Adding too many preservatives can denaturalise the flavor of the food.
  • The heavy industrial development began to denaturalise the landscape.

Advanced Usage

• Legal/Formal Context: The term is often used in legal, political, or administrative contexts concerning immigration and nationality law.

  • The process to denaturalise someone requires substantial evidence and due process.

• Scientific/Philosophical Context: Used in discussions about altering the fundamental nature of a substance or concept.

  • Some argue that genetic modification can denaturalise plant species.

Variants and Related Words

• Denaturalize: The preferred spelling in American English. It has the same meanings.
• Denaturalisation (Noun, British spelling) / Denaturalization (Noun, American spelling): The act or process of denaturalising.
  • The denaturalisation case attracted widespread media attention.
• Naturalise/Naturalize: The antonym, meaning to grant citizenship or to make natural.

Synonyms

• Strip of citizenship: Deprive of nationality.
• Alienate: In a legal sense, to transfer property or, archaically, to estrange. (Note: This is a partial synonym only for the citizenship meaning in specific contexts.)
• Deform: To distort the natural form. (Note: This is a partial synonym for the "make unnatural" meaning.)

Phrasal Verbs

• Not commonly used with phrasal verbs.

Related Idioms

• No common idioms directly incorporate this word.

Học thuật

Verb

1. strip of the rights and duties of citizenship
   • The former Nazi was denaturalized
2. make less natural or unnatural

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