denaturalize

1. (transitive) To revoke or deny the citizenship of.Examples: "After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the principal party members were denaturalized and deported."; "For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts."transitive

2. (transitive) To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.Examples: "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."transitive

3. (transitive) To cease to treat as natural.Examples: "One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence."transitive