vulgarize Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Vul"gar*ize transitive verb & intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. vulgariser, LL. vulgarizare.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Vulgarized ; present participle & verbal noun Vulgarizing
Definitions
  1. To make vulgar, or common.
    Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.

Webster 1913