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Bastardize
//ˈbæstɚdaɪz// verb
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Verb
- 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 declare a child to be illegitimate wordnet
- 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 change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms wordnet
- 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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