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popularize

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pop·u·lar·ize  (ppy-l-rz)
tr.v. pop·u·lar·ized, pop·u·lar·iz·ing, pop·u·lar·iz·es
1. To make popular: A famous dancer popularized the new hairstyle.
2. To present in a widely understandable or acceptable form: popularize technical material for a general audience.
popu·lar·i·zation (-lr--zshn) n.
popu·lar·izer n.
popularize or -ise
Verb
[-izing, -ized] or -ising, -ised
1. to make popular
2. to make easily understandable
popularization
-isation n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.popularize - cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize, generalise, generalize
popularise, popularize - make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
disseminate, pass around, circulate, diffuse, broadcast, circularise, circularize, spread, disperse, propagate, distribute - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
2.popularize - make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
popularise
gear, pitch - set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize, generalise, generalize - cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
popularize
verb 1. make something popular, spread the word about, disseminate, universalize, give mass appeal to
verb 2. simplify, make available to all, give currency to, give mass appeal to
Translations
popularize [ˈpɔpjuləraɪz] vt → popularizar (= disseminate); vulgarizar
popularize [ˈpɔpjuləraɪz] vt → populariser [+ science]; vulgariser
popularize [ˈpɔpjuləraɪz] popular vt [+ sport, music, fashion] → populär machen [+ science, ideas]; popularisieren
popularize [ˈpɔpjuləraɪz] vt → divulgare [+ science]; volgarizzare


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His great ability as a phonetician (he was, I think, the best of them all at his job) would have entitled him to high official recognition, and perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but for his Satanic contempt for all academic dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonetics.
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
But Wiclif proposed to popularize the entire book, in order to make the conscience of every man the final authority in every question of belief and religious practice, and this the Church would not allow.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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