mediocritizev.
/ˌmiːdɪˈɒkrᵻtʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌmidiˈɑkrəˌtaɪz/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
transitive. To make mediocre, to reduce to a common level of mediocrity.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [verb (transitive)]
mediocritize1972
1972 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Sept. 50/2 The banal patter on the show is appalling... Everything is mediocritized.
1992 Time (Electronic ed.) 3 Feb. 61 You cut across the board, which runs a terrible risk of mediocritizing and demoralizing the university.
1994 New Yorker 4 Apr. 76/3 Berkeley..is paying O.C.L.C. not to improve but often to denature and mediocritize its records of old and out-of-print material.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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