The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]
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To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.
--Blackstone. To beget out of wedlock. [R.]
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to change something (for example, art forms) so that its value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bastardize English)
Usage examples of "bastardizing".
They are emasculating our schools and bastardizing our nin-nyversities.
The only Drugs that werent bastardizing my dying moments were Wildman, who was passed out cold, and Jeff the Wife-beater, who was still busy beating his wife at an impressive meter.
They were destined for the Chinatrade: the emperor had decreed that no black slaves could be importedwho were capable of bastardizing the pure bloodline of his people.