vulgarizations

vul·gar·ize (v

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)

tr.v. vul·gar·ized, vul·gar·iz·ing, vul·gar·iz·es

1. To make vulgar; debase: "What appalls him is the sheer cheesiness of TV iniquity. Television has even vulgarized hell" (Jack Kroll).

2. To disseminate widely; popularize.

vulgar·i·zation (-g

-z

n) n.

vulgar·izer n.

vulgarize, vulgarise [ˈvʌlgəˌraɪz]

vb (tr)

1. to make commonplace or vulgar; debase

2. to make (something little known or difficult to understand) widely known or popular among the public; popularize

vulgarization , vulgarisation n

vulgarizer , vulgariser n

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Verb	1.	vulgarize - 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, popularize, vulgarise, 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.	vulgarize - debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage" vulgarise alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
	3.	vulgarize - act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize" vulgarise behave, act, do - behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"

Translations

vulgarize [ˈvʌlgəraɪz] VT → vulgarizar

vulgarize

(= make coarse) → vulgarisieren

(= popularize) → popularisieren, allgemein verständlich machen

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behave
broadcast
circularise
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diffuse
disperse
disseminate
distribute
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generalise
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kitsch
kitschness
materialization
materialize
pass around
Plebification

Benedetti reconstructs the stages and the routes of the complex itinerary of the Tabula in Italian culture from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century: the textual and linguistic rediscovery, the first translations from Greek into Latin, the interpretation of the work by humanists, the poetic versions and prose vulgarizations in academic circles and in those of the courtiers, and the cultural and literary assimilation from the Cinquecento to the literary rendition of Giambattista Vico.

Stefano Benedetti. Itinerari di Cebete: Tradizione e ricezione della ... by Torre, Antonella Dalla / Renaissance Quarterly

Parasexual vulgarizations imprecate confessional airing toward engaging bipartisan satisfying pacts.

Never again by Nufer, Doug / Word Ways

Here, we might reinterpret Matta-Clark's cuttings in a new mode: not so much destructive, or deconstructive, in relation to architecture but constructive of an architecture that (finally) would embody the modernist spatial promise in a way denied by the systematic vulgarizations of modernity built by corporate efficiency.

Splitting the difference: Anthony Vidler on Gordon Matta-Clark by Artforum International

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