Usually means: Make less coarse or crude.
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  1. devulgarize: Wordnik
  2. devulgarize: Wiktionary
  3. Devulgarize: Dictionary.com
  4. Devulgarize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. devulgarize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Devulgarize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. devulgarize: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Devulgarize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To free from what is vulgar or obscene.

Similar:
devulgarise, unvulgarize, unvulgarise, vulgarize, vulgarise, cheapen, dejargonize, plebify, villanize, devirginize, more...

Opposite:
refine, civilize, sophisticate

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Similar:
devulgarise, unvulgarize, unvulgarise, vulgarize, vulgarise, cheapen, dejargonize, plebify, villanize, devirginize, more...

Opposite:
refine, civilize, sophisticate



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