denaturalized

Lost national status

Denaturalized describes someone who has been stripped of their citizenship, typically by government action.

A person may be denaturalized for fraud in the original naturalization process, for serving in a foreign military, or for certain criminal convictions.

The term also applies more broadly to anything that has been made unnatural or had its natural qualities removed.

He was denaturalized after authorities discovered he had lied on his citizenship application.

citizenship

expatriation

Leaving one's native country

exile · banishment · citizenship · renunciation · disenfranchisement · disaffiliation · emigration · immigration · refugee · dispossessed

artificial

synthetic

Produced artificially, not natural

adulterated · modified · corrupted · perverted · distorted · transformed · manipulated · tampered · industrial · refined

alienation

estrangement

Emotional separation between people

rootlessness · foreignness · otherness · marginalization · disengagement · unfamiliarity · anomie · uprooting · deracination · dislocation

biological

protein

Folded amino chain

inactivation · coagulation · heat-treated · pasteurized · sterilized · processed · altered · breakdown · molecular · biochemical

Opposites
citizenship status

denaturalizednaturalized

Given citizenship status

enfranchised · admitted · legitimized · nationalized · welcomed

national belonging

denaturalizednaturalized

Given citizenship status

welcomed · integrated · assimilated · accepted · included

chemical/biological state

denaturalizednatural

Not artificially produced

unaltered · native · intact · functional · preserved

Family

denaturalize, denaturalization

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