Usually means: Make crude, simplify excessively, popularize.
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  1. vulgarize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vulgarize: Merriam-Webster
  3. vulgarize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vulgarize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vulgarize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vulgarize: Vocabulary.com
  7. vulgarize: Wordnik
  8. vulgarize: Wiktionary
  9. vulgarize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vulgarize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vulgarize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vulgarize: Dictionary.com
  13. Vulgarize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. vulgarize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. vulgarize: Rhymezone
  16. Vulgarize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. vulgarize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. vulgarize: FreeDictionary.org
  19. vulgarize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. vulgarize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vulgarize)

verb:  To make vulgar.
verb:  To make commonplace, crass, lewd.
verb:  To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).

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