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vulgarizing

vulgarizing is the present participle and gerund 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).

Adjective

vulgarizing (comparative more vulgarizing, superlative most vulgarizing)

  1. That makes vulgar; degrading.

Forms of vulgarizing

comparativemore vulgarizing
superlativemost vulgarizing

Questions about vulgarizing

What does vulgarizing mean?
Vulgarizing means that makes vulgar; degrading.
What is vulgarizing the present participle and gerund of?
Vulgarizing is the present participle and gerund of vulgarize.
What part of speech is vulgarizing?
Vulgarizing is an adjective.

Words near vulgarizing in the dictionary

  1. vulgarize
  2. vulgarized
  3. vulgarizer
  4. vulgarizers
  5. vulgarizes
  6. vulgarizing
  7. vulgarly
  8. vulgarness
  9. vulgarnesses
  10. vulgars
  11. vulgate

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