verb
- Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.
- usage: "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
- synonyms: popularize, popularise, vulgarise, generalize, generalise
- Debase and make vulgar.
- usage: "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage"
- synonyms: vulgarise
- Act in a vulgar manner.
- usage: "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"
- synonyms: vulgarise
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