cruden

Verb

cruden (third-person singular simple present crudens, present participle crudening, simple past and past participle crudened)

1. (transitive) To make crude
   • We saw how the interconnectedness of primitive impulse and cultural splendour was less forcefully, indeed almost obscurely, expressed through a scholarly excursus which could hardly compete in impact with the 'magnificent blond beast lustfully prowling after booty and victory'; and we saw how the...1978, Malcolm Pasley, Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought : a Collection of Essays, page 175
   • In passing from 'A Conference of the Powers' to Stalky, then, we see how genuine experience and observations can be crudened and distorted by their conversion or partial conversion into propagandist fable—a process all too frequent in Kipling's art.1989, Andrew Rutherford, The Literature of War: Studies in Heroic Virtue