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v. - Strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; Make less natural or unnatural.

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  • He said he was unfamiliar with a statute that allows the government to "denaturalize" a citizen, adding, "We have a wide range of things that we can do with regard to...
  • At the same time, it works to denaturalize menstruation and naturalize the use of Midol.
  • However, the judge refused to denaturalize her, reprimanding the government for having presented no evidence of her guilt.
  • Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
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