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GENTRIFY
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they gentrify ... he / she / it gentrifies
Past simple: gentrified
Past participle: gentrified
-ing form: gentrifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
Example:
gentrify the old center of town
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "gentrify" is one way to...):
freshen up; refurbish; renovate (make brighter and prettier)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
gentrification (the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents))
