GENTRIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gentrify mean? 

• GENTRIFY (verb)
  The verb GENTRIFY has 1 sense:

1. renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations

  Familiarity information: GENTRIFY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENTRIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gentrify    ... he / she / it gentrifies   
Past simple: gentrified   
Past participle: gentrified   
-ing form: gentrifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

gentrify the old center of town

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

freshen up; refurbish; renovate (make brighter and prettier)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

gentrification (the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents))