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Vulgarize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make vulgar.; To make commonplace, crass, lewd.

    "With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned much - our land, as we shall ever fondly call it."

  2. 2
    act in a vulgar manner wordnet
  3. 3
    To make vulgar.; To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).
  4. 4
    debase and make vulgar wordnet
  5. 5
    cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use wordnet

Etymology

From vulgar + -ize.

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