vulgarize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make vulgar.; To make commonplace, crass, lewd.
    — With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned much - our land, as we shall ever fondly call it.
  2. To make vulgar.; To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).

词形变化

vulgarizes present,singular,third-person vulgarizing participle,present vulgarized participle,past vulgarized past vulgarise alternative

词汇关系

近义词
debase dumb down
反义词
ennoble

词源

Etymology tree
English vulgar
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English vulgarize
From vulgar + -ize.
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