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vulgarize

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vul⋅gar⋅ize

  [vuhl-guh-rahyz]
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–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz⋅ing.
1. to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
2. to make (a technical or abstruse work) easier to understand and more widely known; popularize.
3. to translate (a work) from a classical language into the vernacular.
Also, especially British, vul⋅gar⋅ise.

Origin:
1595–1605; vulgar + -ize

Related forms:
vul⋅gar⋅i⋅za⋅tion, noun
vul⋅gar⋅iz⋅er, noun
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vul·gar·ize   (vŭl'gə-rīz')   
tr.v.   vul·gar·ized, vul·gar·iz·ing, vul·gar·iz·es

  1. To make vulgar; debase: "What appalls him is the sheer cheesiness of TV iniquity. Television has even vulgarized hell" (Jack Kroll).

  2. To disseminate widely; popularize.

vul'gar·i·za'tion (-gər-ĭ-zā'shən) n., vul'gar·iz'er n.
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