单词	gentrify
释义	gentrify /ˈdʒɛntrɪfʌɪ / verb (gentrifies, gentrifying, gentrified) [with object] 1Renovate and improve (a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste.The few gentrified streets did once house members of the leftish intelligentsia.... ‘It's getting SoMa-ed,’ says one local, comparing it to the more completely gentrified South of Market district that lies just to the north. The house had that gentrified look common along the Peacham Road. 1.1 (usually as adjective gentrified) Make (someone or their way of life) more refined or polite: a gentrified Irish American... The regulars jammed against the bar are part of the young, gentrified crowd who have colonised the inner walls of the City. Maybe it's because that grouping of people is so out of context these days… or that they look so gentrified almost, so adult, so grown up, so not rock starish. In the absence of other candidates, Highland commissions had to be filled up with such men, a less gentrified set than their English counterparts. Derivatives gentrifier noun ... Soon he was gutting and renovating previously vacant buildings, and selling to yuppie gentrifiers. He embodies all that is reprehensible in the voice of the impatient self-serving gentrifier</em. By the late twentieth century, many of the migrant families or their descendants were also moving from the inner city to newer outer suburban areas eventually to be replaced by middle-class gentrifiers.
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