Meaning of VULGARIZE
| Pronunciation: | | 'vulgu`rIz
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- [v] act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"
- [v] debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage"
- [v] cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
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| | Synonyms: | | generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarise, vulgarise |
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| | See Also: | | act, alter, behave, broadcast, change, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, do, pass around, propagate, spread | |
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| | Definition: | | \Vul"gar*ize\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Vulgarized};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Vulgarizing}.] [Cf. F. vulgariser, LL.
vulgarizare.]
To make vulgar, or common.
Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. --V. Knox.
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