Usually means: Make crude, oversimplify complex concepts.
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  2. vulgarise: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. vulgarise: Wordnik
  5. vulgarise: Wiktionary
  6. vulgarise: Dictionary.com
  7. vulgarise: Rhymezone
  8. vulgarise: FreeDictionary.org
  9. vulgarise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. vulgarise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Vulgarise)

▸ verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarize. [To make vulgar.]

Similar:
vulgarize, adulterise, victimise, scandalise, unvulgarise, unvulgarize, abastardise, devulgarise, stigmatise, denaturalise, more...

Opposite:
sophisticate, refine, elevate, ennoble

Types:
debase, profane, desecrate, obscenity, more...

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Similar:
vulgarize, adulterise, victimise, scandalise, unvulgarise, unvulgarize, abastardise, devulgarise, stigmatise, denaturalise, more...

Opposite:
sophisticate, refine, elevate, ennoble

Types:
debase, profane, desecrate, obscenity, more...



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