verb
1. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
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They popularized coffee in Washington State
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Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
• Syn: ↑popularize, ↑vulgarize, ↑vulgarise, ↑generalize, ↑generalise
• Derivationally related forms:
↑vulgarisation (for: ↑vulgarise), ↑vulgariser (for: ↑vulgarise), ↑vulgar (for: ↑vulgarize), ↑vulgarization (for: ↑vulgarize), ↑vulgarizer (for: ↑vulgarize), ↑popularisation, ↑populariser, ↑popularization (for: ↑popularize), ↑popularizer (for: ↑popularize)
• Hypernyms:
↑circulate, ↑circularize, ↑circularise, ↑distribute, ↑disseminate, ↑propagate, ↑broadcast, ↑spread, ↑diffuse, ↑disperse, ↑pass around
• Verb Group: ↑popularize
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
2. make understandable to the general public
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Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
• Syn: ↑popularize
• Derivationally related forms: ↑popularisation, ↑popularization (for: ↑popularize)
• Verb Group: ↑popularize, ↑vulgarize, ↑vulgarise, ↑generalize, ↑generalise
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.