BASTARDIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bastardize mean? 

• BASTARDIZE (verb)
  The verb BASTARDIZE has 2 senses:

1. change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms

2. declare a child to be illegitimate

  Familiarity information: BASTARDIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASTARDIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bastardize    ... he / she / it bastardizes   
Past simple: bastardized   
Past participle: bastardized   
-ing form: bastardizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bastardise; bastardize

Hypernyms (to "bastardize" is one way to...):

corrupt; debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; pervert; profane; subvert; vitiate (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bastard (derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin)

bastardization (an act that debases or corrupts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Declare a child to be illegitimate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bastardise; bastardize

Hypernyms (to "bastardize" is one way to...):

adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

bastard (the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents)

bastardization (declaring or rendering bastard)