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say it: di-NAY-chur
denature is a verb meaning "add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb". It carries 3 recorded senses.
add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb
modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished
make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for denature come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.