(1):
(v. t.) To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
(2):
(v. i.) To become as if native.
(3):
(v. t.) To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
(4):
(v. t.) 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.
(5):
(v. t.) To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
(6):
(v. i.) To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.