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VULGARIZE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act in a vulgar manner

Example:

The drunkard tends to vulgarize

Synonyms:

vulgarise; vulgarize

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "vulgarize" is one way to...):

act; behave; do (behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

vulgar (lacking refinement or cultivation or taste)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Debase and make vulgar

Example:

The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage

Synonyms:

vulgarise; vulgarize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "vulgarize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

vulgar (lacking refinement or cultivation or taste)

vulgarization (the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

Example:

Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors

Synonyms:

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "vulgarize" is one way to...):

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)

Verb group:

popularise; popularize (make understandable to the general public)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

vulgar (of or associated with the great masses of people)

vulgarization (the act of making something attractive to the general public)

vulgarizer (someone who makes something attractive to the general public)

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