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vul·gar·ize

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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

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—Related forms

vul·gar·i·za·tion, noun

vul·gar·iz·er, noun

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vul·gar·ize Audio Help (vŭl'gə-rīz') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. vul·gar·ized, vul·gar·iz·ing, vul·gar·iz·es

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

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

vulgarize
verb
1.	cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors" [syn: popularize]
2.	debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage" [syn: vulgarise]
3.	act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"