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Popularize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make popular: A famous dancer popularized the new hairstyle.

v. To present in a widely understandable or acceptable form: popularize technical material for a general audience.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Alternative spelling of popularise.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make popular; treat in a popular manner, or so as to be generally intelligible to common people; spread among the people. Also spelled popularise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make understandable to the general public

v. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

Word Usage

"So maybe a better way to "popularize" poetry -- hell, maybe a better way just to explain it -- would be to further valorize the dead, though with the caveat that the dead include the living."

Verb Form

popularized popularizes popularizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

gear pitch distribute pass around circularize

Form

popularized popularizing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

vulgarize generalize democratize familiarize