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 , vulgarise , generalize , generalise ]

debase and make vulgar; The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage

[ Syn: vulgarise ]

act in a vulgar manner; The drunkard tends to vulgarize

[ Syn: vulgarise ]