The Collaborative International Dictionary
bastardise \bastardise\ v. t. Same as bastardize. [chiefly Brit.]
Wiktionary
vb. (alternative spelling of bastardize English)
WordNet
v. change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms [syn: bastardize]
declare a child to be illegitimate [syn: bastardize]
Usage examples of "bastardise".
They act to change the course of justice, thereby bastardising its purpose and direction.
Thirdly, that he was of a more ancient family than the Dukes of Normandy, and of a more honorable descent, his line having never been bastardised.
The linguist will find the language of the book rich in slang - the general argot of the day, the cant of army life, and the specialised Hindu and Tamil dialects and bastardised English that came to be used by both the English army and their servants in colonial India.
A Gothic design one architectural guidebook calls 'a bastardised blend of truncated Pearsonesque Normandy Gothic and facetious, ill-proportioned Lombardy'.