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vulgarize
[ vuhl-guh-rahyz ]
verb (used with object)
, vul·gar·ized, vul·gar·iz·ing.
- to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase:
to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- to make (a technical or abstruse work) easier to understand and more widely known; popularize.
- to translate (a work) from a classical language into the vernacular.
vulgarize
/ ˈvʌlɡəˌraɪz /
verb
- to make commonplace or vulgar; debase
- to make (something little known or difficult to understand) widely known or popular among the public; popularize
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Derived Forms
- ˈvulgarˌizer, noun
- ˌvulgariˈzation, noun
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Other Words From
- vulgar·i·zation noun
- vulgar·izer noun
- un·vulgar·ize verb (used with object) unvulgarized unvulgarizing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vulgarize1
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Example Sentences
To “paint” the subject merely to make it more real, is only to insult the imaginative power and to vulgarize the whole.
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Please don't let the mention of money vulgarize a little friendly act like this.
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That is not so painful; it does not vulgarize you so much as the cups they paint to-day and christen after me!
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They lived in Victoria Villas, one of those smaller streets which copy and vulgarize the better ones in all London suburbs.
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But whatever the cause, a vulgar paper will vulgarize any room, no matter what is done in the way of furniture.
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