VULGARIZE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vulgarize mean? 

• VULGARIZE (verb)
  The verb VULGARIZE has 3 senses:

1. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
2. debase and make vulgar
3. act in a vulgar manner

  Familiarity information: VULGARIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VULGARIZE (verb)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

vulgarise; popularize; popularise; vulgarize; generalise; generalize

Context examples:

They popularized coffee in Washington State / Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Meaning:

Debase and make vulgar

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

vulgarise; vulgarize

Context example:

The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage

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

Meaning:

Act in a vulgar manner

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

vulgarise; vulgarize

Context example:

The drunkard tends to vulgarize

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