"bastardize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈbæstɚdaɪz/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bastardize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: bastardizes [present, singular, third-person], bastardizing [participle, present], bastardized [participle, past], bastardized [past]
Etymology: bastard + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bastard|ize}} bastard + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} bastardize (third-person singular simple present bastardizes, present participle bastardizing, simple past and past participle bastardized)
  1. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
    Sense id: en-bastardize-en-verb-YLIS3oxV
  2. To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase. Synonyms (introduce debased elements into, to degrade): mongrelize, butcher, debase
    Sense id: en-bastardize-en-verb-qjadZVfU Disambiguation of 'introduce debased elements into, to degrade': 7 86 7
  3. To beget out of wedlock.
    Sense id: en-bastardize-en-verb-TKWLSK7G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 23 73 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 13 26 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bastardise

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