Usually means: Make ordinary through overuse, familiarity.
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  1. banalize: Merriam-Webster
  2. banalize: Collins English Dictionary
  3. banalize: Wiktionary
  4. banalize: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. banalize: Dictionary.com
  6. banalize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. banalize: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. banalize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (banalize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make banal or commonplace.

Similar:
banalise, blandify, trivialize, vulgarize, commonize, genericize, exoticise, flatten, superficialize, platitudinize, more...

Opposite:
elevate, ennoble, dignify

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Similar:
banalise, blandify, trivialize, vulgarize, commonize, genericize, exoticise, flatten, superficialize, platitudinize, more...

Opposite:
elevate, ennoble, dignify



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