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denaturalized

American  
[dee-nach-er-uh-lahyzd] / diˈnætʃ ər əˌlaɪzd /

adjective

  1. deprived of the status and rights of citizenship after being naturalized.

  2. deprived of proper or true nature; made unnatural.


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Influencers and commenters piled on, asking why, if the situation was so dire, no one had been arrested, deported or denaturalized.

From Salon Dec. 29, 2025

He included in the post a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding that Mamdani be deported and potentially denaturalized.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2025

All told, the Justice Department successfully charged and denaturalized 16 former SS members who served at Trawniki.

From New York Times Aug. 23, 2018

Some were German citizens; others fled to Germany before they were denaturalized in the United States.

From Washington Post Dec. 16, 2017

Such was the man—such, and so denaturalized the spirit, on whose wisdom and philanthropy the lives and living enjoyments of so many millions of human beings were made unavoidably dependent.

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

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