to bastardize
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8.2
- verb
- /ˈbæstərˌdaɪz/
- Informal
:
desvirtuar
- We live in a culture of free thinking and uncertainty, and you guys are bastardizing all different forms of knowledge by claiming this type of certainty.
- bastardized version
So in fact, I won't bastardize it by trying to paraphrase it.
- So in fact, I won't bastardize it by trying to paraphrase it.
- We could have made a lot more revenue, but that's how like, destroyed it, bastardized zip brands.
- We live in a culture of free thinking and uncertainty, and you guys are bastardizing all different forms of knowledge by claiming this type of certainty.
Examples
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I mean, coffee should not be bastardized so much.
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It's a bastardized version of an Errol Flynn movie, and Blade Cop and Freddy are equally matched.
Fiction book (1991) -
I want a lamp, and I've got a couple here that I can bastardize for this purpose.
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Food today is so bastardized that it is a bit disgusting.
Blog text (10) -
You bastardized my project to the point where it's unrecognizable.
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All this can be done without bastardizing the truth to the degree pseudoarchaeology does, and good examples are already at hand.
Academic text (2003) -
I have enough of the English language being bastardized, code used to manipulate people out of right and wrong.
Blog text (7) -
It further admonished against the use of foreign and native terms that "bastardized" Argentine Spanish.
Academic text (1995) -
Today, many follow a bastardized false Christianity that was rewritten around 70 AD to deceive people of the true message.
Blog text (17) -
The movie completely bastardized the original story, leaving out key elements that made it special.
Synonyms
83
4.2
Gradually make someone's trust, belief, or support weaker over time
49
5.1
To make something worse in quality or value
22
5.0
To make something seem less important or respected
20
4.3
To make something seem less valuable, often by lowering its price or quality
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9.1
To take away an important part so something loses its power
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6.9
To make something worth less by adding cheaper material
3
7.3
To make a product or service common and like others so it loses value
2
9.9
Make a contract or decision not valid by law
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5.3
To damage how something looks or its quality
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9.9
Remove or change parts of a work because they may upset people
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8.4
To make something simpler and less refined to appeal to many people
To make a person or thing seem less natural
To make something seem less attractive or exciting
Make something look bad and spoil its appearance
Antonyms
How Degraded
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2.0
80
2.8
- Informal
4
8.2
7
6.9
- Informal
14
4.0
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4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bastardize comes from the same root as bastard, which once meant 'not born in marriage' or 'not pure'. So to bastardize something is to make it 'less pure' or to spoil the original, and that is why the word now often means 'to lower the quality'.