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POPULARIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they popularize ... he / she / it popularizes
Past simple: popularized
Past participle: popularized
-ing form: popularizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make understandable to the general public
Example:
Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
Synonyms:
popularise; popularize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "popularize" is one way to...):
gear; pitch (set the level or character of)
Verb group:
generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
popularization (an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
Example:
Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
Synonyms:
generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "popularize" is one way to...):
broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)
Verb group:
popularise; popularize (make understandable to the general public)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
popularization (the act of making something attractive to the general public)
popularizer (someone who makes something attractive to the general public)
