vulgarize, vulgarise
(verb) act in a vulgar manner; “The drunkard tends to vulgarize”
vulgarise, vulgarize
(verb) debase and make vulgar; “The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage”
popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise
(verb) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
vulgarize (third-person singular simple present vulgarizes, present participle vulgarizing, simple past and past participle vulgarized)
To make commonplace, lewd, or vulgar.
• debase
• dumb down
• ennoble
Source: Wiktionary
Vul"gar*ize, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Vulgarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Vulgarizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. vulgariser, LL. vulgarizare.]
Definition: To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
