"vulgarize" meaning in English

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      "word": "ennoble"
    }
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "vulgar",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "vulgar + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "vulgar + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vulgarizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vulgarizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vulgarized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vulgarized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "vulgarize (third-person singular simple present vulgarizes, present participle vulgarizing, simple past and past participle vulgarized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out",
          "text": "\"Yes,\" said Mr. Flushing. \"And in my opinion,\" he continued, \"the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 167",
          "text": "Words only vulgarize love and blunt its edge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make commonplace, lewd, or vulgar."
      ],
      "id": "en-vulgarize-en-verb-NDnnB~oc",
      "links": [
        [
          "vulgar",
          "vulgar"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "debase"
        },
        {
          "word": "dumb down"
        },
        {
          "english": "non-Oxford British spelling",
          "word": "vulgarise"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "vulgaaristaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "vulgariser"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gavulgaruleba",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "გავულგარულება"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gauxamseba",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "გაუხამსება"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ekchydaḯzo",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "εκχυδαΐζω"
        },
        {
          "code": "ia",
          "lang": "Interlingua",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "vulgarisar"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "volgarizzare"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "To make something vulgar",
          "word": "vulgarizar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vulgarize"
}

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    {
      "word": "ennoble"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "vulgar",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "vulgar + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "vulgar + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vulgarizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vulgarizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vulgarized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vulgarized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "vulgarize (third-person singular simple present vulgarizes, present participle vulgarizing, simple past and past participle vulgarized)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out",
          "text": "\"Yes,\" said Mr. Flushing. \"And in my opinion,\" he continued, \"the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 167",
          "text": "Words only vulgarize love and blunt its edge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make commonplace, lewd, or vulgar."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vulgar",
          "vulgar"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "debase"
    },
    {
      "word": "dumb down"
    },
    {
      "english": "non-Oxford British spelling",
      "word": "vulgarise"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "vulgaaristaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "vulgariser"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gavulgaruleba",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "გავულგარულება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gauxamseba",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "გაუხამსება"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ekchydaḯzo",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "εκχυδαΐζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "vulgarisar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "volgarizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To make something vulgar",
      "word": "vulgarizar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vulgarize"
}