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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

The anarchist Emma Goldman was denaturalized in 1909, and shipped to Revolutionary Russia a decade later.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2020

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2017

A man lost in the snow wanders, in spite of himself, in perfect circles; the city man's feet, denaturalized by rectangular streets and floors, carry him ever away from himself.

From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.

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