Vulgarize
verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 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 act in a vulgar manner wordnet
- 3 To make vulgar.; To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).
- 4 debase and make vulgar wordnet
- 5 cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From vulgar + -ize.
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