gentrify

[jen-truh-fahy]

gen·tri·fy

[jen-truh-fahy] verb, gen·tri·fied, gen·tri·fy·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to improve (a neighborhood) by gentrification.
verb (used without object)
2.
to undergo gentrification: Some neighborhoods gentrify more easily than others.

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Origin:
1970–75; gentry + -fy

gen·tri·fi·er, noun
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gentrify

verb
renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations; "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town" 
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