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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

]

—Related forms

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

To lower in quality or character; debase.
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.

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