to make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.-to confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.-to receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.-to adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.-to become as if native.-to explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.