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vulgarise

vulgarise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarize.

Meaning of vulgarize

Verb

vulgarize (third-person singular simple present vulgarizes, present participle vulgarizing, simple past and past participle vulgarized)

  1. To make commonplace, crass, lewd.
    • With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).

Forms of vulgarise

third-person singular presentvulgarises
present participlevulgarising
past participlevulgarised
pastvulgarised

Origin of vulgarise

From vulgar + -ise.

Words formed from vulgarise

Questions about vulgarise

What is vulgarise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Vulgarise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarize.

Words near vulgarise in the dictionary

  1. vulgarian
  2. vulgarians
  3. vulgarily
  4. vulgarisation
  5. vulgarisations
  6. vulgarise
  7. vulgarised
  8. vulgariser
  9. vulgarisers
  10. vulgarises
  11. vulgarish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vulgarise (page history and authors); vulgarize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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