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What is "trivialize"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trivialize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Judges feared that showing the trial on television would trivialize the legal process.
▪ The media also has trivialized the peace movement and its leaders.
▪ The newspaper's headlines trivialized the war, making it seem like a game.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And yet, the power of the land resists any trivializing.
▪ In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art.
▪ Mahony in particular found that the problem was either trivialized or ignored by teachers.
▪ So despite the speculations of sociologists, television did not trivialize the news nor generate alienation and apathy.
▪ Such critics are trivialized and placed firmly at the margins of serious concern.
▪ The thing about federal holidays is they often get homogenized or commercialized or trivialized.
▪ This pop will never trivialize itself, and so can never be lauded as cheap tack.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trivialize

1836, from trivial + -ize. Related: Trivialized; trivializing.

Wiktionary
trivialize

alt. To make something appear trivial. vb. To make something appear trivial.

WordNet
trivialize

v. make trivial or insignificant; "Don't trivialize the seriousness of the issue!" [syn: trivialise]

Usage examples of "trivialize".

Not to trivialize tornadoes, but suppose yesterday had been something more.

In addition, the film has a tendency to trivialize the very social issues that it goes out of its way to heavy-handedly raise.

It was clear to Brazil why the media, the unimaginative, the insensitive, the resentful, and those citizens not indigenous to Richmond often trivialized Hollywood Cemetery by referring to it as the City of the Dead.

Here (in the United States) I feel that most interviews I have given have trivialized my novels.

Better he be alone and confused than Christa find herself trivialized and sullied by the complacent ignorance of his family.

Not so bald a one as his infatuation with Alexandra, but a more profound one, perhaps, in that he was trivializing Giselle’s plight, preparing to do without her.

Contradiction may be an unavoidable trait in a many-faceted sensibility in an expanding universe, but bitterness is reductive in the most trivializing way, and Ellen Cherry was aware that it was her fate to have to struggle against it.

He ignored the pain in his right leg, compartmentalizing and thus trivializing the nerve shock, the disruption to his thirstily questing senses.