vulgarize

• vulgarise (non-Oxford British spelling)

vulgar +‎ -ize

vulgarize (third-person singular simple present vulgarizes, present participle vulgarizing, simple past and past participle vulgarized)

1. To make commonplace, lewd, or vulgar.
   • 1915: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

     "Yes," said Mr. Flushing. "And in my opinion," he continued, "the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur."

• debase
• dumb down

• ennoble

vulgarize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vulgarizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vulgarizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vulgarizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vulgarizar