Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Denationalize \De*na"tion*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Denationalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Denationalizing}.] [Cf. F.
   d['e]nationaliser.]
   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.

Source : WordNet®

denationalize
     v : put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry
         was denationalized" [syn: {denationalise}] [ant: {nationalize},
          {nationalize}]