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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
naturalise is a verb meaning "adopt to another place". It carries 4 recorded senses.
adopt to another place
“The stories had become naturalized into an American setting”
make more natural or lifelike
make into a citizen
“The French family was naturalized last year”
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
“domesticate oats”
“tame the soil”
plant
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 naturalise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.