Definition of "denaturalize"

denaturalize

/diːˈnæt(jə)ɹəlaɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present denaturalizes, present participle denaturalizing, simple past and past participle denaturalized
1. (transitive) To revoke or deny the citizenship of.
2. (transitive) To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
  Quotations
  Henchard was, by original make, the last man to act stealthily, for good or for evil. But the solicitus timor of his love — the dependence upon Elizabeth's love into which he had declined (or, in another sense, to which he had advanced) — denaturalized him.
  1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
3. (transitive) To cease to treat as natural.
  Quotations
  One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.
  2018, Lee Quinby, Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture, page 139