Vulgarize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make vulgar; debase: "What appalls him is the sheer cheesiness of TV iniquity. Television has even vulgarized hell” ( Jack Kroll).
  • v. To disseminate widely; popularize.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To express or re-express something in a base, common, or lewd manner; to make something commonplace; to make something vulgar.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make vulgar, or common.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make vulgar or common.
  • To produce vulgarity.
  • To act in a vulgar manner.
  • Also spelled vulgarise.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. act in a vulgar manner
  • v. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
  • v. debase and make vulgar
  • Antonym
    ennoble   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    do    act    behave    distribute    pass around   
    Cross Reference
    popularize   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    plebeianize    plebify    debase    dumb down