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denaturalized

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[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

One fact often getting lost in the shuffle is that a naturalized citizen cannot be denaturalized for anything that happens after their naturalization.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 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

Thus the ancient symbol has been denaturalized by incongruous additions, like that of Isis weeping over the broken column containing the remains of Osiris at Byblos.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

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