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/pˈɑpjələrˌaɪz/ Listen

Popularize

verb

(past & past part. popularized; pres. part. popularizing)

Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use. Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize. "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"

Make understandable to the general public. Synonym: popularise.

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... do to popularize myself," said Early whimsically. "I'll think over the situation a bit, Jim, and see if I can see any way out from under. Of course, Percival hasn't any record by which you can discredit him and keep his mouth ...

— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter

... still Italian more than a century and a half after the invention of the art form, though in the meanwhile the country had produced a Bach and a Handel. The Palmo venture (at the bottom of which there seems to have been a desire to popularize or democratize a form of entertainment which has ever been the possession of wealth and fashion) revived the social sentiment upon which Da Ponte had built his hopes. In the opinion of the upper classes's it was not Italian opera that had succumbed, but only the ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

Words linked to "Popularize" : circulate, pitch, propagate, circularize, diffuse, broadcast, circularise, gear, popularization, disperse, vulgarise, spread, distribute, pass around, vulgarize, disseminate