Wiktionary
vb. (standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling lang=en vulgarize)
WordNet
v. 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" [syn: popularize, popularise, vulgarize, generalize, generalise]
debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage" [syn: vulgarize]
act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize" [syn: vulgarize]
Usage examples of "vulgarise".
Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people.
The ideas of Kinnock, Gonzales, Mitterrand, Papandreou, are nothing new, but simply a vulgarised rehash of those expressed by Bernstein at the turn of the century.
His vulgarised Marxism was an attempt to reconcile reform and revolution.
Lectures were, doubtless, considered by her disconsolate widower as having too touching, too solemn an import to be vulgarised by type.