单词 | mediocritize |
释义 | mediocritizev. Originally and chiefly U.S. transitive. To make mediocre, to reduce to a common level of mediocrity. ΘΚΠ 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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