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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

Fewer than 150 people had been denaturalized in American courts in the previous 50 years, almost all of them Nazis, war criminals or people who were convicted of federal crimes tied to large-scale immigration fraud.

From New York Times Aug. 26, 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 Albert Pike

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