denaturalise
/di:'nætʃrəlaiz/ Cách viết khác : (denaturalise) /di:'nætʃrəlaiz/
Definition
- 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.
Verb
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strip of the rights and duties of citizenship
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The former Nazi was denaturalized
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make less natural or unnatural
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