Associations to the word «Naturalise»

Wiktionary

NATURALISE, verb. Alternative spelling of naturalize

Dictionary definition

NATURALISE, verb. Adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting".
NATURALISE, verb. Make more natural or lifelike.
NATURALISE, verb. Make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year".
NATURALISE, verb. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne