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"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "vulgarize"
},
"expansion": "de- + vulgarize",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "de- + vulgarize",
"forms": [
{
"form": "devulgarizes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "devulgarizing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "devulgarized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "devulgarized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "devulgarize (third-person singular simple present devulgarizes, present participle devulgarizing, simple past and past participle devulgarized)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1868, E. A. Abbott, “The Teaching of English”, in The Living Age",
"text": "Shakespeare and Plutarch's \"Lives\" are very devulgarizing books.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To free from what is vulgar or common."
],
"id": "en-devulgarize-en-verb-H~ldCHuH",
"links": [
[
"vulgar",
"vulgar"
],
[
"common",
"common"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To free from what is vulgar or common."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "devulgarise"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "devulgarize"
}
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"args": {
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"2": "de",
"3": "vulgarize"
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"name": "prefix"
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],
"etymology_text": "de- + vulgarize",
"forms": [
{
"form": "devulgarizes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "devulgarizing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "devulgarized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "devulgarized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "devulgarize (third-person singular simple present devulgarizes, present participle devulgarizing, simple past and past participle devulgarized)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"English terms prefixed with de-",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1868, E. A. Abbott, “The Teaching of English”, in The Living Age",
"text": "Shakespeare and Plutarch's \"Lives\" are very devulgarizing books.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To free from what is vulgar or common."
],
"links": [
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"vulgar",
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],
[
"common",
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To free from what is vulgar or common."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "devulgarise"
}
],
"word": "devulgarize"
}
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