1. to deprive of citizenship or nationality
Usage: legal
2. to make unnatural or remove natural qualities from something

Examples

• The government moved to denaturalize citizens who had obtained citizenship fraudulently.
• His passport was revoked when authorities decided to denaturalize him.
• The court ruled they could not denaturalize someone based on political beliefs.
• Chemical processes can denaturalize proteins in food.
• The treatment will denaturalize the fabric’s original texture.
• Industrial pollution tends to denaturalize the local ecosystem.