Dictionary entry

Denationalize

Webster's Dictionary 1913

De‐na″tion‐al‐ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Denationalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Denationalizing.] [Cf. F. dénationaliser.] To divest or deprive of national character or rights.

Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett.

An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.