Meaning

(transitive) To revoke or deny the citizenship of..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To revoke or deny the citizenship of.
2. (transitive) To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
3. (transitive) To cease to treat as natural.

Example Sentences

After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the principal party members were denaturalized and deported.

For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts.

Henchard was, by original make, the last man to act stealthily, for good or for evil. But the solicitus timor of his love — the dependence upon Elizabeth's love into which he had declined (or, in another sense, to which he had advanced) — denaturalized him.

One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.

Word Forms

• denaturalizes
• denaturalizing
• denaturalized
• denaturalise

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