Bastardize

//ˈbæstɚdaɪz// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.

    "Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock."

  2. 2
    declare a child to be illegitimate wordnet
  3. 3
    To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.

    "The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program."

  4. 4
    change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms wordnet
  5. 5
    To beget out of wedlock.

    "I should / have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the / firmament twinkled on my bastardizing."

Etymology

From bastard + -ize.

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