1. Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
   "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
   - popularize, popularise [Brit], vulgarise [Brit], generalize, generalise [Brit] 
2. Debase and make vulgar
   "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage"
   - vulgarise [Brit] 
3. Act in a vulgar manner
   "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"
   - vulgarise [Brit]

Derived forms: vulgarized, vulgarizes, vulgarizing

See also: vulgar, vulgarization, vulgarizer

Type of: act, alter, behave, broadcast, change, circularise [Brit], circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, do, modify, pass around, propagate, spread

• canulation
• canulisation
• canulization
• Canute
• Canute the Great
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• canvasback
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• canvass
• canvasser
• canvassing
• canyon
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• canyon oak
• canyon treefrog
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• Canyonlands National Park
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• caoutchouc
• caoutchouc tree
• cap
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