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bas·tard·ize    Audio Help   [bas-ter-dahyz] Pronunciation Key verb, -ized, iz·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1.to lower in condition or worth; debase: hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.
2.to declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard.
3.Australian. to harass or humiliate as part of initiation into a college or regiment.
–verb (used without object)
4.to become debased.
Also, especially British, bas·tard·ise.


[Origin: 1580–90; bastard + -ize]

bas·tard·i·za·tion, noun
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bas·tard·ize    Audio Help   (bās'tər-dīz')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   bas·tard·ized, bas·tard·iz·ing, bas·tard·iz·es
  1. To lower in quality or character; debase.
  2. To declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard.

bas'tard·i·za'tion (-tər-dĭ-zā'shən) n.
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bastardize

verb
1. change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms 
2. declare a child to be illegitimate 

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Bastardize

Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]

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

The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. --Blackstone.

2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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