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v. To lower in quality or character; debase.

v. To declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard.

v. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.

v. To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase.

v. To introduce debased elements into.

v. To beget out of wedlock.

v. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

v. To beget out of wedlock.

v. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its value declines; to debase.

To declare or prove to be a bastard; stigmatize as a bastard.

To beget out of wedlock.

To render mongrel or hybrid; make degenerate; debase: as, “a bastardized race of the Romans,”

To become degenerate.

Also spelled bastardise.

v. change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms

v. declare a child to be illegitimate

"The basic idea, which I’m going to horribly bastardize, is that social power is exerted not just through obvious physical or economic coercion, but also in the ways information is categorized and used."

bastardized    bastardizes    bastardizing   

profane    demoralise    misdirect    deprave    vitiate   

mongrelize